This week in Enter Stage Right

Enter Stage Right ^ | June 24, 2002 | Steven Martinovich

[gordgekko]

You want action. I want action. Enter Stage Right has action!

This week's edition of Enter Stage Right is out now! Check it at http://www.enterstageright.com

--This week's issue-->

Orwell, words, politics and the war for freedom: Thomas Jefferson was a revolutionary, reactionary, progressive, radical, liberal and conservative. What does that mean? Bruce Walker says absolutely nothing because words that define political principles no longer mean anything

Targeting Baghdad: Now that it appears the United States is moving against Iraq, whether covertly now or with open force later, Samuel L. Blumenfeld looks back on another attack against that rogue nation. One that occurred back in 1981

Sinking ships of accountability: It's not even a year since the September 11 terrorist attacks but that's not stopping people from continuing to use the aftermath for their purposes. Brad Keena reports

Government not the solution to all problems: Last week W. James Antle III tackled the subject of what role the state has in protecting its citizens. This week he deals with the resulting mail

Plop plop fizz fizz: Things are getting so bad on Wall Street that politicians are even taking on domestic doyen Martha Stewart for allegedly trading stocks on inside knowledge, says Jackson Murphy

Advancing a cure for Canadian health care woes: Steve Martinovich reviews Better Medicine: Reforming Canadian Health Care, the latest entry in the growing field of books trying to fix a beleaguered health care system

In search of the truth: The crew from Disinfo.com is back with Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies and Steven Martinovich reviews their efforts

Relativism misunderstands reality: Patrick O'Hannigan tackles the subjects of relativism and multiculturalism and how they combine to create today's poisonous world

Just taxation: An early American primer: The theory behind "compassionate conservativism" is as weak today as it was in 1769 when a Presbyterian pastor named John Joachim Zubly addressed taxation in a sermon, writes Steve Farrell

Open appeal to conservatives: Paleoconservative James Hall issues an open appeal to those conservatives he believes have strayed from the original principles of what that word represents

Throw out "One Person, One Vote": Robert S. Sargent, Jr. argues that the current system that Americans use to elect their representatives is a creation of several 1960s court cases

Garden State snakes: Ted Lang marvels at the corruption of both Republican and Democrat politicians in the state of New Jersey and how everyone keeps getting off when they're charged

Sustaining nothing, losing everything: Make no mistake about it. If you are an American, H.R. 1433 and S. 975 are attacks on your property rights. Tom DeWeese explains why

Burn, baby, burn!: The latest spate of forest fires proves once again that Henry Lamb is right about environmentalists and the government that listens to them

Decline of the Violence Policy Center: The Violence Policy Center is an organization on the decline, says Dr. Michael S. Brown, and the evidence can be seen in a recent report on concealed handgun licenses in Texas

Dark cloud shades U.N. women's treaty: The push is on once again to ratify the U.N.'s CEDAW, a treaty that bars discrimination against women. The problem? Wendy McElroy says the U.N. is guilty of that very crime

Conservative governments in Europe: If they fail, what comes next?: Although many see the rise of the right in Europe as part of the cyclical nature of politics, Paul Weyrich believes what happens in the next few years is quite important

Why are there so many women in the fathers' movement?: The feminist movement doesn't like it but some of the biggest contributors to the fathers' movement happen to be women, write Glenn Sacks and Dianna Thompson

Tidbits
ESR gives you the news items that you may have missed...or the ones the newspapers, magazines or TV anchors didn't think you needed to hear

Farmers for economic freedom
Updates about farmers fighting for economic freedom in western Canada

Plus some other stuff!

Off site articles

Protecting liberty in a permanent war: America's war on terrorism isn't going to be over any time soon and that means protecting civil liberties is more important now than ever, writes Ted Galen Carpenter

Warming up to the truth: The real story about climate change: Courtesy of the Heritage Institute, Dr. Sallie Baliunas lectures on what the truth about global warming really is. RealPlayer needed

--Other sections of interest-->

Musings - The ESR blog
http://www.enterstageright.com/cgi-bin/gm/

ESR's Conservative Site of the Day
http://www.enterstageright.com/site

What's new at ESR
http://www.enterstageright.com/whatsnew.htm