‘World Order’ lacks wisdom wrought by experience By Bruce Fein – – Thursday, October 23, 2014 Henry Kissinger, like Shakespeare’s unreflective King Lear, has grown old without growing wise. In “World Order,” his latest handiwork, Mr. Kissinger discovers no theory of international relations like Newton’s laws of motion or Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Instead,…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Wednesday, October 22, 2014 Congress should amend the Espionage Act to decriminalize the leaking of national security information as a general rule. We should not require government officers of employees or contractors to choose between their conscience and the law. There should be two exceptions: when the publication has either…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Sexual assault complaints on college and university campuses present hard cases. Hard cases encourage bad law that shortchanges due process. Thus, the prevailing epidemic of political correctness regarding sexual assault complaints is predictably crippling fairness. You are said to condone male depravity if you refrain from…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Celebrity fashion designer Oscar de la Renta passed away Monday at age 82. It was altogether fitting that effusions of praise echoed throughout the fashion world. An empire in decline revels in trivia and drivel to conceal philosophical emptiness and approaching doom. Fifth Avenue, Worth Avenue…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Sunday, October 19, 2014 U.S. foreign policy professedly championing democracy is like the Rose Bowl’s Wrong Way Riegels. And thereby hangs a tale. In 1929, the Rose Bowl pitted the University of California against Georgia Tech. Cal’s star center and linebacker, Roy Riegels, recovered a Georgia Tech fumble but unwittingly…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Friday, October 17, 2014 According to a recent petition filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a “Redskins” virus has infected the broadcast industry allegedly more pernicious than its Ebola sister. The petitioners imply that use of the word “Redskins” over the airwaves when reporting on the professional football team…
DetailsRewarding superior effort with greater reward is morally praiseworthy By Bruce Fein – – Thursday, October 16, 2014 Simple justice dictates that economic prosperity turn on individual skill, foresight,industry and risk-taking — traits which vary across the broad spectrum of the human species like a bell-shaped curve. As British philosopher Samuel Johnson lectured, “So far…
DetailsThe First Amendment famously protects three important American ideals:
Unfortunately, in the name of freedom, certain liberals are looking to assault these freedoms. They have reportedly requested sermons from five local pastors in Houston to see if they contain “hate speech.” While they won’t have to turn over sermons, they will be required to turn over “speeches” they have made. This is going to have a chilling effect on free speech throughout the nation.
DetailsPresident Obama has thrown a Hail Mary pass to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He should cease the folly and withdraw American forces from the fight. For the president to risk American lives on a hope and a prayer is obscene. Mr. Obama’s play book against ISIS features the training and…
DetailsBy Bruce Fein – – Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. sermonized that “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” But he was wrong. Horrors or violence abroad did not betoken danger at home at the nation’s birth. The Napoleonic Wars did not threaten the sovereignty of the United States or the…
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