Author Archive | Jim

I was interviewed by a Christian Science Monitor  reporter recently about AmeriCorps.  The Obama administration is talking about greatly increasing the enrollment in activities like the ‘civilian conservation corps.’ Here’s an outtake from the article: Critics point out such programs have proven inefficient in the past. “This is the type of thing that is driven […]

Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni announced today that the Palestinian civilians killed by the IDF in Gaza were “a product of circumstance.” Livni recognizes that the carnage may present a public relations problem for the Israeli government: “These matters will present us with a complicated task … The consequences, in the context of civilians casualties, are something […]

Kudos to cartoonists Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman for capturing the demise of reading better than a stack of volumes by contemporary professors and a heap of studies by the National Endowment for the Arts. [Click on the cartoon for a full size version of the Zits cartoon] Unfortunately, the “experts” respond to this problem by recommending […]

So the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed by voice vote a resolution blindly supporting Israeli attacks on Gaza and heaping derision on Hamas. This craven display should awaken anyone who sanguinely assumed that “everything changed” on November 4.    The resolution contained numerous twists of history, but the most glaring absurdity is the following: “Whereas Hamas was […]

The spiel I gave last month at George Mason University is now on YouTube. The Future of Freedom Foundation, which sponsored the gig, has a webpage linking to the various YouTube segments of the speech. The audience asked excellent questions and there was some good stomping of the bailouts.