Newsmax RSS FeedWed, 22 May 2013 16:11:45 EDTAn all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4 to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.Fri, 17 May 2013 09:43:19 EDTA hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not completely mentally deranged.Wed, 15 May 2013 09:34:38 EDTThere can be honest differences of opinion on many subjects. But there also can be dishonest differences. Fri, 10 May 2013 10:33:44 EDTIf there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, "diversity" should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don't need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity.Thu, 09 May 2013 09:56:18 EDTIf you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out into the street after it.Fri, 03 May 2013 11:55:41 EDTSomeone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible.Wed, 01 May 2013 09:43:57 EDTWhile it is not possible to answer all the emails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative.Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:28:00 EDTBritain's late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has "never ceased to be dangerous," but the West has "ceased to be vigilant."Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:01:55 EDTDuring decades of watching both collegiate and professional football, I have seen hundreds of touchdowns scored by black players — but not one extra point kicked by a black player.Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:17:56 EDTAmid all the heated, emotional advocacy of gun control, have you ever heard even one person present convincing hard evidence that tighter gun control laws have in fact reduced murders?Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:27:59 EDTNew York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students.Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:57:32 EDTSince when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8 New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were planning a "proportional" response to any North Korean attack.Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:55:28 EDTThe Obama administration treated the creation of "democracy" in the Middle East as a good thing. Ironically, those who created the United States of America viewed democracy with fear — and created a Constitutional republic instead.Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:58:19 EDTWe all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves.Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:17:10 EDTMany ideas presented as "new" are just rehashes of old ideas that have been tried before — and have failed before. Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:52:55 EDTThe decision of the government in Cyprus to simply take money out of people's bank accounts there sent shock waves around the world. People far removed from that small island nation had to wonder: "Can this happen here?"Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:10:52 EDTA remarkable book titled "Gifted Hands" tells the personal story of Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went on to become a renowned neurosurgeon.Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:33:33 EDTThere are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions.Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:11:22 EDTMost people are not even surprised any more when they hear about someone who came here from Korea or Vietnam with very little money, and very little knowledge of English, who nevertheless persevered and rose in American society.Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:40:47 EDTBack in my teaching days, many years ago, one of the things I liked to ask the class to consider was this: Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children.