Mob Rule on College Campuses
Originally written November 29 2006 at SFGate.com
America’s college campuses, once thought to be bastions of free speech, have become increasingly intolerant toward the practice....
The Truth About 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
This article was first posted April 19 2006
With the upcoming release of the film “United 93,” the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have...
Post 9/11: The Fight Must Go On
Eight years after the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9/11, it appears that America has largely drifted back into complacency. Certainly, many Americans still understand...
Anti-War Miseducation in San Francisco
San Francisco has long been known as a bastion of anti-war sentiment. And as the oft-repeated mantra goes, local peace activists support the troops,...
Homeless by the bay
When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom initiated a program in conjunction with Google last month to provide phone and messaging facilities to the homeless,...
Listening To Legal Immigrants
For several months, Americans have been embroiled in a national debate over illegal immigration. On one side you have those pushing for guest-worker programs, amnesty...
Savage vs. CAIR: The battle over free speech
Originally posted to the San Francisco Chronicle Dec. 19, 2007
Editor’s note: This column makes reference to “CAIR”, the Islamic organization in the U.S., but...
Today’s True Feminists
Originally published March 22 2006
As we marked another International Women’s Day this month, commemorations took place around the world. In the West, the feminist...
Israel’s Battle Is Our Own
Originally published July 25 2006
The kidnapping of Israeli soldiers earlier this month, first by Hamas in Gaza and then by Hezbollah in Lebanon, were...
Honor killings: When the ancient and the modern collide
Throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, young Muslim women are being targeted for violence. Lest it be thought hate crimes are to blame,...
Fox News: Too Fair, Too Balanced
Originally written January 24, 2005
Fox News Network has become a favorite target of leftists these days, who, in all their impotent rage, like to...
Jimmy Carter’s Legacy of Failure
It seems that everywhere one looks lately, former President Jimmy Carter is hawking his new book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.” The inflammatory title has...
A History Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
written July 6 2005
Americans were busy enjoying the Fourth of July this past weekend, but how many of them took the time to think...
Fuel or folly? Ethanol and the law of unintended consequences
In the pantheon of well-intentioned governmental policies gone awry, massive ethanol biofuel production may go down as one of the biggest blunders in history....
A Sept. 10 State of Mind
Originally appeared at SFGate.com January 11, 2005
Ever since Sept. 11, critics have been insisting that the U.S. government remedy the blind spots that led...