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Let's Take Back Columbus Day

Smash the Labor Monopolies!

Our Self-Crippled War

Why Are We Moving Toward Socialized Medicine?

What Obama Should Say To Iran

Punishing Google for Its Success

What We Owe Our Soldiers

Misrepresenting "How We Arrived at This Moment"

Mob Rule Comes to Washington

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

Is Rand Relevant?

Anti-Smoking Paternalism: A Cancer on American Liberty

Obama Whitewashes Iran

Let Bankruptcy Courts Take the Wheel

Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech

No "Footprint," No Life

What to Resolve This New Year

Why Christmas Should Be More Commercial

The High Cost of Washington's Price Manipulation Policy

Stop Blaming Capitalism for Government Failures

Nationalization Is Theft

The Maestro vs. the Market

Supreme Disappointments

The Meaning of the Right to Vote

What We Owe Our Soldiers

Let Them Fail

Fleeting Freedom: The Indecent Assault on Broadcasters

Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization

In Defense of Speculators and Short-Sellers

Big Business: Home of Individualism

Let's Stop Making Disasters More Disastrous

California Children Still Considered State Property

Retire Social Security

The Government Did It

With or Without Nukes, Iran Is a Mortal Threat

Put the "Independence" Back in Independence Day

From Flat World To Free World

Bush's War Policy: The Top Campaign Non-Issue?

An Open Letter to Borrowers and Lenders: Take Responsibility for Your Decisions

Investigate Big Congress, Not Big Oil

Set Yahoo! Free

How Government Makes Disasters More Disastrous

The Danger of Environmentalism

Life And Taxes

The Real Meaning of Earth Hour

Your Child Is Not State Property

The Price of Bush's Commitment to Palestinian Statehood

The Easter Masquerade

War On Free Political Speech

Too Big to Bail

An Open Letter to America's Students--Will "Atlas Shrugged" Change Your Life Forever?

Defining the Right of Self-Defense by Gun

Project Lifeline: Collaboration or Intimidation?

"Net Neutrality": Destroyer of Internet Freedom

To Stimulate The Economy, Liberate It

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

The Right Vision Of Health Care

The Meaning of New Year's Resolutions

The Pakistan Crisis

Is Washington With Us?

Doing Violence to Free Speech

The Injustice of "Doing Something" about Subprime

Deep-Six the Law of the Sea

Don't Save Social Security

After Ten Years, States Still Resist Assisted Suicide

"Open Access" and the Tyranny of the FCC

Be Healthy or Else!

It Isn't Easy Being Green

Anti-Smoking Paternalism: A Cancer on American Liberty

Why Businessmen Love Atlas Shrugged

Why Atlas Shrugged Changes Lives

The Influence of Atlas Shrugged

The Appeal of Ayn Rand

"Single-Payer" Health Care Is Anything but Free

Who Really Supports Our Troops?

Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good

The Real Disgrace: Washington's Battlefield "Ethics"

Celebrating Income Inequality

How to Stop Iran?

No Right to "Free" Health Care

The Right to Assisted Suicide

Rachel Carson's Genocide

Say "No Way!" to "Say on Pay"

Jamestown: Birthplace of America's Distinctive, Secular Ideal

The Radicalness of Atlas Shrugged

The Religious Right's Culture of Living Death

What to Do About Gasoline Prices

In Defense of Income Inequality

Who Is Gouging Whom?

Washington's Make-Believe Policy on Iran

How to Truly Support our Troops

Pay Is Company's Prerogative

"Racial Balance" Programs: The New Racism

What Real War Looks Like

The Anti-Life Movement

Thanksgiving: A Most Selfish Holiday

Reject Environmentalism, Not DDT

The Conservatives' War on Birth Control

The Terrorists' Motivation: Islam

Why We Are Losing Hearts and Minds

The Indispensable Condition of Peace

The U.S.-Israeli Suicide Pact

A Victory for Big Tobacco--and the Rule of Law

Keep Our "Addiction" to Oil, End Our Allergy to Self-Assertion

Diplomacy Only Encourages North Korea's Belligerence

Washington's Failed War in Afghanistan

Bush and Congress Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

Catholic Leaders Need to Show a Little Respect for Freedom

Washington's Pro-Hamas Foreign Policy

Why Are CEOs Paid So Much?

Drop the "Windfall Profits" Smear

Freedom vs. Unlimited Majority Rule

The Myth of "Price-Gouging"

The Transformation of "Jihad Jack" and John Walker Lindh

The Fear to Speak Comes to America's Shores

Religious Terrorism vs. Free Speech

The Twilight of Freedom of Speech

The Cartoon Jihad: Free Speech in the Balance

Who Will Defend Industry from Eco-Terrorism?

The Injustice of Saddam's Trial

"Intelligent Design" Is about Religion versus Reason

To Save Lives, Legalize Trade in Organs

Death to "Diplomacy" with Iran

The Advent of Freedom?

The Foreign Policy of Guilt

The UN's "Virtue" Is Its Vice

"Muslim Opinion" Be Damned

The Perversity of U.S. Backing for the Gaza Retreat

Israel's Deadly Appeasement Process Continues

Presumed Guilty

The "Animal Rights" Movement's Cruelty to Humans

The Bait and Switch of "Intelligent Design"

The Need for an Active Supreme Court Justice

Lance Armstrong's Heroism Is a Moral Inspiration

Fight the Root of Terrorism With Bombs, Not Bread

The Faith-Based Attack on Rational Government

Animal "Rights" Versus Human Rights

Moral Values Without Religion

The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The "Sin" of Pride

Betraying the Real Freedom Fighters

A Culture of Living Death

The Ten Commandments vs. America

Supreme Court Should Uphold Rights, Not Majority Sentiment in Ten Commandments Cases

The Tyranny of Eminent Domain

Drug Safety vs. the FDA

Free Speech on Campus

Educators vs. Students

Bush's Betrayal of America: The Iraqi Elections

Ayn Rand: A Legacy of Reason and Freedom

Rewarding the MVPs of the Business World

Social Security is Immoral

America's Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive

Faith and Force

Environmentalism's Dangerous Campaign for "Safety"

Arafat's Undeserved Honor: The West's Shame

The Meaning of the Right to Vote

Columbus Day: The Cure for 9/11

The Erosion of Property Rights

Multiculturalism's War on Education

The Olympics Represent the Best of Western Civilization

To Outsource or to Stagnate?

Abolish the FCC

The Injustice of Insider Trading Laws

Privatize Space Exploration

World Opinion Be Damned

The Power of Government Should Not Be Used to Promote Ideas

Bush's Faith-Based Initiative Is an Assault on the Wall Between Church and State

Thank You, Harry Potter!

Judge Was Right to Declare "Partial-Birth" Abortion Ban Unconstitutional

America's Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive

Council on Bioethics Antagonistic to Man's Well-Being

American Appeasement in Iraq

Diverting the Blame for 9/11

Politics Without Mirrors

A Passion Against Man

Communities Should Welcome Wal-Mart--in the Name of Freedom and Justice

The Terror of "Animal Rights"

Cloning Is Moral

America Needs a Leader Like George Washington

Exploiters vs. Victims in the Grocery Strike

Privatize the Space Program

WTC Memorial Should Celebrate America's Producers

Martha and the Tall Poppies

Campaign Finance Reform Attacks Victims of Corruption

Immoral to Ban Human Cloning

America Has Grounded the Wright Brothers

An Open Letter to the People of Iraq

The Medicare Frame-Up

Cloning Is Moral

Educators vs. Reading

"Hate Crimes" Law Undermines Protection of Rights

Campaign Finance Limits Violate Free Speech

Where Have You Gone, Isaac Newton?

The U.S. Must Stop Undermining Israel's War on Terrorism

Ban on Partial-Birth Abortion Would Be a Blow to Women's Rights

The Mounting Threat of Homegrown Terrorism

NYSE Chairman Should Have Kept His Money--and Been Proud of It

The Timid War on Terrorism

Time to Celebrate Man's Mind

The Cost of the "Ethical" Assault on Honest Businessmen

Don't Blame Our Intelligence Agencies--Blame Our Unprincipled Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy and Self-Interest

A Cry from Zimbabwe

Death to Theocracy

Reductio ad Totalitarianism

On Flag Day Celebrate America's Core Values: Reason, Rights, and Science

The Real Museum Looters

The Road Map to Hell

Why Rent Control Is Immoral

Free Speech Protects Profit-Makers, Too

The Hazards of a Smoke-Free Environment

The Road to Victory Goes Through Tehran

Liberty, Not Democracy, in Iraq

Thought Control

Iraqi Freedom Requires Individual Rights

The Ideological Reconstruction of Iraq

Stop Apologizing for Civilian Casualties

Smashing Windows for Peace

They Hate Us, Too

Don't Defy the United Nations--End It

Senate Should Allow Drilling in ANWR

Innocents in War?

The Withering Blix-Krieg

Dictatorship by the Numbers

In Defense of the Cowboy

The Historians vs. American History

The Worldwide Epidemic of Doctors Strikes

Bad Economics in One Lesson

The Racism of "Diversity"

America Needs a Leader Like George Washington

The Spirit of Columbia

To America's Armed Forces

Peacenik Warmongers

America's Non-Resolve to Fight Evil

Atlas Shrugs in Venezuela

Human Cloning: Raelians vs. Reality

Capitalism Is the Cure for Africa's Problems

Peace on Earth--and Its Price

Venezuela's Lonely Rebellion

War and Morality

Red-Tape Conservationists

Islam's Ugly Assault on Beauty

Let's Revive Philosophy

Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day

The Rush from Judgment

Abortion: An Absolute Right

The Grand Illusion

Paralyzing America's Producers

Loose Lips in the Pressroom

The Nobel Peace Prize Should Go to Those Who Really Support Peace

Thinking It Alone

Would-Be Intellectual Vandals Get Their Day in the Supreme Court

The Bear Market Makes the Case for Privatizing Social Security

When Your Home Is Not Your Castle

The Meaning of Welch's Cave-in

The Meaning of Heroism

What Have We Lost?

The Betrayal of the Bush Doctrine

The Case for "Destabilization"

Censorship on Campus?

America Is Not Winning the War

"Sustainable" Development's Unsustainable Contradictions

Time to Celebrate Man's Mind

An Open Letter to CEOs: Defend the Profit Motive-or Perish

High Schools Flunk Science

Blood for Oil

No Conflict Between Liberty and Security

The Welfare Debate We're Not Having

What Is Killing the Stock Market? Government Regulation

Congressional Hysteria Will Not Make Every Businessman Honest

Prescription Drug Benefits Violate the Rights of Drug Companies

The Threat of the Paternalistic State

Through Your Most Grievous Fault

Capitalists vs. Crooks

Anything Less Is Suicide

Walker Lindh: From Marin County to Mazar-I-Sharif

The War on CEOs

Small-Time Crooks

America: The Secular Republic

Bush's Vision for Peace: Prelude to War

Martha and the Tall Poppies

Israel Has a Moral Right to Its Life

The Post-Colonialist Famine

The Virtue of "Playing God"

America's Maginot Line

Monoliths, Wells, Mounds: What Is It We're Trying to Say Here?

Freedom's Defenders

Honoring Virtue

What They Knew And When They Knew It

Forgotten Heroes of 9/11

Graduation Day Values

Conference in Cloud Cuckoo Land

War for Peace

The Palestinian Victims?

Homegrown Terrorism

The Palestinian Choice

On Tax Day Thank the Rich and Support Lifting the Tax Yoke off Them

We Are Either With Israel, Or We Are With the Terrorists

Drop the Antitrust Case Against Microsoft

Palestinians Led by Arafat Have No Right to State

Israel's Suicide

The Terrorist's Best Friend

Modern Education Kills

Bush's Un-American and Immoral Call for "National Service"

It's My Life! A Doctor Has a Right to His Own Life

How to Achieve Real Campaign Finance Reform

Love and Selfishness

What We Should Remember on Martin Luther King Day

Argentina's Intellectual Collapse

The Real Threat to Our Energy Supplies

Unlimited Liability

With Friends Like Us...

Ending the Peace Process War

"Peace" Process: Israel's Path to Suicide

War Powers Without War

The New UC Admissions Guidlines Will Destroy the Integrity of the Admissions Process

Who Is the More Dangerous Enemy? The Terrorists--Or Our College Professors?

Disband the Coalition

Allowing Israel to Destroy the PLO Helps Defend the U.S.

The Phony War

Giving Real Meaning to Veterans Day

A War against Islam

The Lure of Baseball

The Immorality of a "Compassionate War" on Terrorism

The Economics of War

America Disarmed

Should We Go to Mars? Wrong Question

A Culture of Death

Terrorists vs. America

Radical Islam's Assault on Human Life

"End States Who Sponsor Terrorism"

Why Do They Hate Us?

War, Nuclear Weapons and "Innocents"

America's Battle with Moral Uncertainty

The Lessons of War

It Is Time to Declare War

We Are All Israelis Now

Crime or War?

What a Real War Looks Like

Fifty Years of Appeasement Led to Black Tuesday

Acts of War

Out of the Fire and Back into the Frying Pan

The UN Conference of Racists

Brazil's War on Profits and Lives

The Upside-Down War

Palestinians Led by Arafat Have No Right to State

Bush's Biotechnology Blinders

The Death Toll of Environmentalism

The Enemies of Nuclear Power

Where Does America Stand?

Man: The Real Endangered Species

Barbarians at the G8

The Carrot and the Carrot

HMOs and "Patients' Rights": Rationing Medicine

The Real Brave New World

An Open Letter to the International Olympic Committee Regarding China

The Child-Manipulators

The Conference for Human Extermination

The Morality of Genetic Engineering

Timid Old World

The Palestinian Choice

The Scientist Trap

Nations United against Rights

Bush Energy Plan Caves In--to Environmentalism

Conservation vs. the American Dream

The Evil of Animal "Rights"

California's Green Profiteers

The Amazing Disappearing, Reappearing Arctic Ice Cap

Man: The Endangered Species

Musical Theater for the Deaf

Downey Supporters Only Half Right

Green Thumbs vs. "Green" Politics

America's Problem with Prejudice

Truth vs. Words on China

The Next "Peace Process War"

Tax Credits for Education

A Feeling Is Not an Argument

John McCain, Traitor

Liberalism vs. Individual Rights

Statism Will Worsen, Not Cure, California's Power Crisis

Campaign Finance Limits vs. Free Speech

America's "Soft-Hearted," Soft-Headed Foreign Policy

The Willy Sutton Theory of Government

Our Killing Schools: Intellectual and Moral Wastelands that Destroy America's Youth

Why Congress Should Support Bush's Tax Cut Plan

Keep the SAT to Promote Fairness, Objectivity and Individualism

The Microsoft Case: Stop the Insanity

The Manifesto of Self-Abasement

How America Abets Its Terrorist Foes

Presidents Day: A Celebration of What?

In Defense of the Wealthiest One Percent

The Conservative Welfare State

Bush and Norton Should Lift Environmental Restrictions on Energy Production

Shame on Casey Martin

Deregulation--Or Reregulation?

The Politics of Evasion

The Joy of Football

Cognitive Child Abuse in Our Math Classrooms

California's Antitrust "Deregulation"

Why Greens Are to Blame for Blackouts

Clinton's 29,000 Commandments

America's "Field of the Blackbirds"

Where Is the Future?

The Return of the Spotted Owl

It Depends On What the Meaning of the Word "Vote" Is

Thanksgiving: The Producer's Holiday

Fall of Berlin Wall Does Not Guarantee Freedom

The Pied Pipers of Tribalism

Gore's Disastrous Green Agenda

Why Justice Will Not Prevail

Animal "Rights" Versus Human Rights

The Peace Process War

China's Gymnastics Gulag

My Home-School Experience Demonstrates the Benefit of a Rational Approach to Education

The Censorship Smokescreen

A "Band-Aid" on the FDA

Bush Abdicates Leadership on Prescription Drugs

Say No to the "Self-Esteem" Pushers

Natural Disasters Demonstrate Man's Power, Not Nature's

How Gore Might Bushwhack The GOP

"Buy American" Is Un-American

Time to Celebrate Man's Mind

Let's Retire Social Security on its 65th Birthday

Protestors at the Democratic Convention Are the Enemies of Freedom

How the U.S. Government is Causing High Oil Prices

Why Students Can't Add or Subtract

Who Are Our Heroes?

Don't Let Medicare Destroy the Drug Industry

Clinton's Moral Surrender to Putin

Fully Privatize Social Security

The "Sweatshop" Scam

Kill The Frankenstein Myth: Genetically Modified Food, Science and Technology Are Good

The Real (and Sinister) Meaning of the Elian Raid

Why It Can Happen Again

Egalitarianism: The New Torture Rack

The Government vs. Rights

Animal "Rights" vs. Human Rights

Volunteerism Destroys Education

The Crucifix vs. the Easter Egg

Are The Reading Wars Over?

A Sin to Deport Elian

Privatize the Airwaves

Hasta La Vista, Anthony Burns

The TV Networks Cave In to Racism

Religion and Capitalism Are Antithetical

Caution: Textbooks Are Hazardous to Your Child's Mind

Whose Children Are They?

Feminism's War on Objectivity

The Tobacco Industry Surrender

A Supreme Court Overview

11th Circuit Court Rejects the Rights of Elian Gonzalez

The Moral Menace of Proposition 103

Reason vs. Faith

Compulsory Service for High School Students

Blacklists Are Not Censorship

Man vs. Nature

A Tale of Two Novels

Reclaiming the "Right"

Our Schools vs. Our Children's Minds

New Eminent Domain Assaults: Taking Private Property for Political Elite

An Open Letter to Bill Gates

Proposed Congressional Minimum Wage Hike Costs Employers Their Rights

America's Real Threat: The "Isolationism" Smear

Campaign-Finance Reformers Have It Backward

The Christopher Columbus Controversy

Patients' "Bill of Rights" Is an Assault on Rights

Paul McCartney Joins PETA's Attack on Human Rights

The Lesson of World War II

The Bible Belt's Assault on Education

Making Money, Not Giving It Away, is a Virtue

What Woodstock Really Stands For: A Symbol of a "Counterculture" of Destruction

Apollo 11

Say "No" to Bush and His "Compassion"

Pride vs. Prejudice

High School Physics: Grade F

Jackson Negotiates with Racism in Serbia, Promotes it at Home

Get Government Out of Social Security

Socializing Students for Anarchy

Abortion Rights Are Pro-Life

Kosovo: Tribalist Quagmire

Microsoft is Fighting The Wrong Battle

"Dr. Death" Is a Defender of Life

Elia Kazan: Moral Hero

Bad Ideas = Boring Sex

"Hate Crimes" Law Not Answer to Gay, Racial Killings

The U.N.'s Distortion of Rights

Republican and Democratic--The Identical Party?

Nasa's Flight From Reason

A Foreign Policy of Self-Contempt

Antitrust Laws Are Anti-American

Clinton vs Reality

Why Clinton's Race Panel Recommendations Can Not Work

Fanning the Flames of Terrorism

Back to School or Back to Prison?

Monica Lewinsky and the Moral Bankruptcy of the Republicans

Opposition to Immigration is Un-American

Does the State Now Own Your Body?

Clinton Versus Your Health

How to Achieve Real Campaign Finance Reform

July Fourth Celebrates America's and the West's Core Values

The Brain Thieves

Children of the Damned

CEOs Scrubbing Graffiti?

Bury the "Extremism" Smear at Barry Goldwater's Funeral

What Young People Really Need: Not Volunteerism but Happiness and Heroes

One Year After Clinton's Servitude Summit: Freedom Not Service

A Boy's Life or Death

Paying More Blood Money to the IMF

Hatred of the Good

America's Foreign Policy of Self-Abnegation

Attacks Against Microsoft Immoral

Is Social Security Moral?

The "Green" Unabomber

Individualism--The Only Cure for Racism

The Greatness of Western Civilization

The Big Lie in Hollywood: The Hollywood Ten Were Not Victims But Villains

The Tobacco Settlement Is a Dangerous Assault on Individual Rights

The Tobacco Gestapo

Apology for Slavery Will Perpetuate Racism

Perpetuating Racism: Apology by Proxy

Graduated Tax for Medicare Is Immoral

Appeasing Dictatorship: From Munich to Hong Kong

Goal of the Oklahoma Bombers and the Militias: Sacrificing the Individual to the Whims of a Group

Preserving America: Soros versus Jefferson

The Americanization of Servitude

Public Service and Private Misery

Iraq: The Wrong War

Attacking the Heart of Medicine

Israel's--and America's--Fundamental Choice

What to Do about Terrorism

Diversity and Multiculturalism: The New Racism

Religious Terrorism

 

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