The Dead Hand

[This article was written by The Free Muslims Coalition and distributed on February 23, 2006] The Bush administration recently approved an Arab company's attempt to take over the operation of seaports in six major American cities. The sale Read More

November 17, 2005 First published in Power Line by John Hinderaker   In the tradition of his former boss Jimmy Carter, ex-CIA director Stansfield Turner has gone abroad to stab his country in the back. In an interview with British ITV, Read More

David left a couple of comments to my article The Atom Bomb and the Fatwa. My response to his second comment is more appropriate as a new post here. Here is David's comment in its entirety: I have traveled and worked in about 100 different countries. Read More

Our nation is facing the largest national debt in its history. Our annual budget deficit is overwhelming — we’re swimming in red ink. From time to time, when the Democrats control things, Congress imposes new taxes on Americans in a demonstration Read More

We have already examined Randal O’Toole’s criticisms of Forest Service cost accounting. In his book, Reforming the Forest Service, published by Island Press, he also examines several other aspects of Forest Service operations. How the Forest Read More

By now you probably know that the skipper of the USS John F. Kennedy was canned for colliding with a dhow — see Jason's post of August 26, 2004: JFK Skipper Relieved for Cause. Here is the full story along with some comments I could not resist making Read More

I recently saw a bumper sticker that read: If you like the Post Office, you will love socialized medicine. Point taken. The Post Office can’t seem to move into the state-of-the-art world of modern computers at any level that seems to matter. Not Read More