North Korea and Nukes
From Cox and Forkum:
Related Reading: Baby Kim Jong's Secret Weapon Against America
Growth = Sprawl?
Thomas Bray exhibits the rare virtue of requiring that terms be defined--in this case, "sprawl": "At what point does development cease being growth and become sprawl? And what is the aim of growth/sprawl restrictions: preserving farms, protecting the environment, saving existing cities and older suburbs, creating more efficient patterns of growth?"Right Thing, Wrong Reason
William Tucker argues for the abolition of rent control in New York City--but what would otherwise be a strong case is undercut by its reliance on the argument that abolishing these controls would increase the tax base. The fact that politicians may choose to do something for their own bad reasons is no reason to go encouraging them in those reasons.Generous with Other People’s Paycheck
I had this letter published in today's New York Sun:J. P. Avlon, in his column "How Giuliani Cut Government," [Opinion, April 24, 2003] writes that "had Mr. Giuliani proposed deeper personnel cuts at a time of historic surpluses during the late 1990s, he would have been accused of racism and hardheartedness." But this is hardly an excuse--Mr. Giuliani was accused of racism and hard-heartedness anyway.
While I doubt Mr. Giuliani is the coward that he could be taken to be from Mr. Avlon's characterization, an elected official who gives away the store when faced with such cheap attempts at moral intimidation isn't fit to be in office. It's easy to be generous when you're helping yourself to other people's money. We need less of such irresponsible "kindness" in City Hall.
France and Saddam
“Social Conscience” for Terrorism
The New York Times reports that the CUNY Law School, after decades of trying "to produce lawyers with a social conscience and a left-wing sense of the public interest," is now dismayed that its students are "seeking to honor the only American lawyer ever charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization." [New York Times, 4/26/03]It must be really egregious if even the Times can't whitewash it.