Contents

CONTENTS

PART I: ECONOMIC ISSUES

Drugs and Politics

The Real Revolutionaries

Capital Gains and “Trickle Down”

No Sense of Proportion

Warrior in a 200-Year War

The Role of the Rich

Perennial Economic Fallacies

Sweatshops at Home and Abroad

Sanity in San Francisco

The End of Montgomery Ward

“Saving” Social Security

Social Security vs. Privatization

Minimum Journalism

Merit and Money

PART II: RACIAL ISSUES

Routine Cruelty

Losing the Race

Reparations for Slavery?

The Lessons of Indonesia

Blacks and Bootstraps

“Racism” in Word and Deed

Sweeping Success Under the Rug

Sorting By Race

Race and the New Century

“Access” to Responsibility

PART III: POLITICAL ISSUES

Poverty and the Left

“Useful Idiots”

Facts versus Dogma on Guns

“Campaign Finance Reform” Follies

Ugliness in Yosemite

Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform

Lying Statistics

Are We Still Americans?

Pacifism and War

Intended Consequences

Islam and the West

Pandering to the Anointed

Green Bigots versus Human Beings

Another Outrage

The Best of the Century

PART IV: EDUCATIONAL ISSUES

The Wrong Filter

Too Many Ph.D.s?

“No Excuses”

Back Door Quotas

We Are All “Dropouts”

School to School?

The War Against Boys

“Research” Marches On

Let's Hear It for Unfairness!

Does It Add Up?

Diversity versus “Diversity”

Choosing A College

A Painful History

“Forced to Volunteer”

Drugging Children

Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin?

Success Concealing Failure

The Old Neighborhood

The “Non-Profit” Halo

Do Facts Matter?

Do Facts Matter? Part II

PART V: LEGAL ISSUES

Love Those Killers!

Microsoft and Anti-Trust “Law”

Lessons Not Learned

Aborted Knowledge

Murder is Murder

McVeigh and the Death Penalty

PART VI: SOCIAL ISSUES

Boomers and Boomerangs

Deep Trouble from Shallow People

Thanksgiving and “Fairness”

Was the Ball Juiced?

The Dangers of “Equality”

Is the Family Becoming Extinct?

Life at the Bottom

The Einstein Syndrome

“The Duty to Die”

Shocked by the Obvious

Families and Dictators

The “Autism” Dragnet

Racial Profiling of Authors

Chandra Levy Clues

Barry and the Babe

The Insulation of the Left

W. Glenn Campbell (1924–2001)

PART VII: RANDOM THOUGHTS

Random Thoughts