Posted on 07/01/2002 12:37:27 PM PDT by gordgekko
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Put the "independence" back in Independence Day: The forgotten meaning of America: This July 4 Michael S. Berliner would really like his fellow Americans to remember what it took to earn the independence of the United States of America
Rebels, they were not!: Contrary to what you might believe, the American colonies didn't rebel against England, writes Steve Farrell. What really happened was that England became a rebel against the law and liberty. The proof? Some British elites admitted as much
Goodbye Mr. Arafat: Steven Martinovich says that Yasser Arafat, whether he realizes it or not, is a spent political force. It took U.S. President George W. Bush to make that announcement
Rights, libertarianism and the Confederacy: Many supporters of the Confederacy love to portray it as a libertarian paradise but W. James Antle III says that's about as accurate as saying the Union was goodness personified
Profiles in heroism: New York Times bestseller Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present tells the stories of the heroes who earned their nation's highest military award for bravery. Steven Martinovich reviews Allen Mikaelian's marvelous study of courage under fire
Codependent bureaucracies: Why does the bureaucracy seem to be self-perpetuating? Bruce Walker says it's because each department and office overlaps and sustains each other. If you deal with one, you may as well be dealing with them all
Binding words for Americans: If last week's court decision declaring the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional showed anything, says Alan Caruba, it's that words continue to bind Americans
Imagine there's no September 11: There's been a lot of talk lately of who knew what about the September 11 terrorist attacks and when they knew it. Mark Vorzimmer runs through what could have happened
It's time for new owners: The biggest landowner in the western United States is the federal government and that means they're responsible for the forest fires that have destroyed nearly two million acres of trees, argues Henry Lamb
Memo to Commissioner Roy Romanow: A mind is like a parachute, it works best when it's open: It would appear that Canadians won't have to wait until this fall to find out how Roy Romanow thinks their health care system should be fixed. Walter Robinson says the former premier appears to have made his mind up already
E.J. Dionne, Jr. got it wrong: Robert S. Sargent, Jr. says columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. was out to lunch when he criticized some Supreme Court justices for siding with an HMO over one of its clients
Picking the deepest pocket: Ohio's high court allows liability lottery to proceed: The Ohio Supreme Court recently allowed a lawsuit against the gun industry to go forward, something that Vin Suprynowicz says was a bad mistake
Today's criminal will become tomorrow's Islamic terrorist: You think Jose Padilla was the only militant to come out of a prison? C.T. Rossi says America's prisons are filled with men just like him
Catholic Church faces new sex scandal: The next sex scandal that will hit the Catholic Church isn't about the abuse of children, writes Wendy McElroy, but rather abuse of the brides of Christ
Amtrak: The moment of truth is at hand: Paul Weyrich believes that Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta should have attached some big conditions to the $100 million in aid he announced for troubled railroad Amtrak
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Off site articles
New novel exposes eco-fanatics, neo-pagans and eco-terrorists: Hank Willow reports on a new novel by Jack R. Stevens that satirizes the environmental extremism known as "deep ecology"
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