Gang Terror on Trains in UK
The vandals, believed to have been armed with iron bars, wrecked so many carriages that morning peak services were disrupted due to a shortage of stock.

Living at the Expense of Everyone Else
Most Alabamians with even a lick of sense understand that state agencies should not be awarding high-paying consulting contracts to spouses of management-level state employees.
by Gary Palmer

National ID Will Not Improve Security
There are times when this great nation would benefit tremendously from a good case of congressional gridlock. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a national ID bill, which is a proposal that masquerades as immigration reform.
by Brad Taylor

AEA Sets Alabamaba Legislature's Priorities
Paul Hubbert may have given the people of Alabama the clearest evidence yet of what is wrong with state government …and he put it in writing.
by Gary Palmer

The Baker Street Shakespeareans
A new, annotated edition of the complete Sherlock Holmes stories has just appeared in two volumes; ditto a new best-selling "biography" of Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt's WILL IN THE WORLD.
by Joe Sobran

US Workers Lose Under Immigration Policy
In 2002, the net loss to U.S. natives from immigration was $68 billion. This $68 billion annual loss represents a $14 billion increase just since 1998. As the size of the immigrant population has continued to increase, so has the loss.

Virginia to Deny Illegals Benefits
Both chambers of the Republican-controlled Virginia General Assembly yesterday approved a measure that would deny illegal aliens access to state and local public benefits, including Medicaid.

The Larry Summers Show Trial
Nothing exemplifies the corruption and decay of American intellectual culture more grotesquely than The Larry Summers Show Trial.

Demos Plan to Use Ten-Commandments Judge in Alabama
All the Democrat schemers have to do is to fashion a plan that will allow them to chose their opponent. And they believe they have just what they need.
by Hugh McInnish

Arizona Proposal Would House Prisoners in Mexico
Some lawmakers want to explore the possibility of the state contracting to have a private prison built in Mexico to house illegal immigrants now incarcerated in Arizona.

FBI Questions Pastor's Sermon
A 32-year-old pastor, who has been a minister for 13 years, received what he called the "shock of his life" last November and is still incredulous about the chain of events that took place.

Bush's Helpful Critics
The January 30 elections in Iraq confounded those who predicted that they would be a bloody disaster. They weren't. This illustrates why it's unwise to stake your principles on predictions.
by Joe Sobran

Robin Hood Union Bosses
Finally, a little honesty from the folks behind the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, which may soon force billions of dollars to be funneled into New York's already bloated school system.

The Harlem Hell Fighters
Not too long ago I came across a story that tells a little history of World War I that you may not have learned in school. During World War I the first Allied soldiers to advance to Germany's border at the Rhine River were Americans … and they were black.
by Gary Palmer

Johnny Carson: An Anti-Eulogy
Carson's death at 79 has brought forth a flood of fawning eulogies so excessive as to suggest that Americans have lost their critical faculties.
by Joe Sobran

Oil For Food Foolery
Senate hearings in mid-November 2004 revealed that Iraq‘s Saddam Hussein skimmed over $21 billion from the UN “oil-for-food” program that was supposed to feed and provide medicine for the Iraqi people.
by Willaim Fielder

A Body Without Vision
While Congress will be debating great ideas and initiatives that have the potential for tremendously empowering people and meeting enormous needs, the Alabama Legislature will be tying up the legislative session with another batch of gambling bills.
by Gary Palmer

Equal Rights, Equal Opportunity, and Now Equal Outcome
It's time to quit pretending that legislation and money will solve the underachievement problems in some schools. The real problems are community, family, desire, hard work and brains.
by Jim Jackson

What Will History Say?
I love to quote the exchange that ends Bernard Shaw's play THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE. Major Swindon asks, "But what will history say?" General Burgoyne replies, with cynical Shavian wit, "History, sir, will tell lies, as usual."
by Joe Sobran

Guide For Illegal Aliens: Cash In On Colorado!
Colorado Governor Bill Owens’ gushy welcome to Spanish-speaking "recent arrivals" appears just below that of Mexico’s Consul: "As governor of Colorado, I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to our great state, which appreciates recent arrivals and your contribution to our economy and culture."