I’ve been editing newspapers long enough to have seen at least two waves of “bubble” job applicants. Back in the late 1980s, in Arizona, I advertised some relatively low-paying, modest-benefit newspaper jobs — stuff for which we would normally have expected to receive a dozen applications. Instead, we got 50. Many resumes had been jimmied […]
On Feb. 22, one week ago, Bible missionaries Scott and Jean Adams, 70 and 68, of Marina del Rey, Calif., and traveling companions Bob Riggle, 67, and Phyllis Macay, 59, of Seattle, were shot and killed aboard the Adams’ 58-foot sloop The Quest by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea between Somalia and Iran. The […]
I wrote recently that under the Second and 14th Amendments, the average citizen must be “allowed” to own, without government license or permission or taxation (the tax having been specifically designed to discourage possession, in the case of the $200 “machine gun tax,” enacted in 1933 when that sum was equivalent to 6,000 to 13,000 […]
I wouldn’t have nominated Jim Gibbons for “Mr. Charisma,” myself. He never seemed to take much joy in being governor of Nevada. Nor do I adhere to the doctrine that we should speak no ill of the politically departed. Not only were Lincoln and FDR tyrants, they didn’t even offer any attractive short-term inducements in […]
We keep getting letters explaining that of course the government schools can’t be expected to turn out as good a product as the private schools — even private schools that spend less per student per year — since the private schools get to pick and choose their students, while the government youth propaganda camps have […]
“Constitutional amendments we’d like to see” is usually an ineffective game. But this one keeps occurring to me. It’s about 600 words, but I still believe it passes the basic test of comprehensibility, despite being in three parts. It also gives us a litmus test to determine who — if anyone — in the political […]
When Americans boys are sent off to war — when war is thrust upon us, as it was on Dec. 7, 1941, and again on Sept. 11, 2001 — we ask our young men to put their lives on the line. Then, the college debaters in charge at the White House proceed to spend more […]
Every time I make some passing reference in print to the tyrant Lincoln, as I did a few weeks ago, a fair number of readers insist on proving the dangers of letting unionized government functionaries “educate” our children. I believe we can confidently presume most who rail “Such a bizarre and outlandish statement proves what […]
In full accord on the perceived “global threat” (The AP reports), “world leaders” Tuesday endorsed President Barack Obama’s call to secure all nuclear materials around the globe within four years to keep them out of the grasp of terrorists. They offered few specifics for achieving that goal. But as 47 nations including Armenia, Morocco, Thailand, […]
Last week, we detailed the Prussian brand of “state socialism” which is the true goal of Obamacare. But the Republicans, swept back into power next January — only with not quite enough votes to override an Obama veto — are going to repeal all this! Right?