The American Enterprise articles from April 2002

The American Enterprise archives from April 2002

Excerpts from viewer mail.(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2002... I am an immigrant myself and I cannot be prejudiced in any way but I immigrated to the United States and not to China or Mexico. Immigration has to be controlled and balanced so we do not loose our American heritage and the American way of...

Checking America's vital signs. (Bird's Eye).
April 1, 2002... The federal government spent $6.5 billion conducting the 2000 census. That's $56 per American home, and twice what was spent to conduct the 1990 census. An audacious sum for a statistical exercise, no matter how you look at it. I suggest less...

Sidelights.(national and international events and popular culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Sixty-four percent of Palestinians support suicide bomb attacks against Israel, according to a poll by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center.... Forty percent of British Muslims think Osama bin Laden's war against America is justified,...

Bitter harvest ahead. (Scan).(economics and agricultural assistance)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The multi-year farm bill grinding its way through Congress has shaped up as a disaster. It will sock taxpayers for $170 billion, and then cost consumers and farmers many billions more. The only people winning in the long run will be politicians...

Iraqi partners? (Scan).(Iraqi National Congress)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The American Enterprise Institute recently hosted a discussion with five of the six top leaders of the Iraqi National Congress, the main opposition group and potential alternative to Saddam Hussein's reign of terror. The INC members began...

Harness the power of greed. (Scan).(airport security incentive system)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... We know there's a continuing problem with weapons getting through airport security. Testers at Baltimore-Washington International Airport (serving the capital), slipped 16 bombs, 9 hand grenades, and 25 guns by the scanners between January 1995...

He's right: he's a menace. (Scan).(recidivist prisoner files suit for being released)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Mark Turner was released from prison after serving four years of an 11-year robbery sentence. A few years later, he was back behind bars for involvement in another robbery. From his jail cell, he launched a $1.6 million suit against prison and...

The missing gun. (Scan).(Appalachian Law School shooting)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Another U.S. school shooting occurred in January. This time, it took place in Virginia, at the Appalachian Law School. As usual, there were calls for more gun control. In this age of "gun-free school zones" one fact was missing from...

Good Christian journalism. (Scan).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... While many secular conservative publications face stagnant or falling circulation numbers, two recent developments demonstrate the growing strength and vitality of Christian journalism. In North Carolina, Warren Smith, a former marketing...

Eco-fraud? (Scan).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... From the January 2002 CEI Update: An unmistakable whiff of scandal is in the air following revelations that seven members of an inter-agency task force (with representatives from the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and...

Mighty queer. (Scan).(literature and social policy)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Jesse's Dream Skirt, a book aimed at kindergarteners through third-graders, tells the story of a young boy who likes to wear his mother's clothes, eventually asking for his own skirt. Mom makes him one, and he wears the skirt to school,...

Coffee crazed. (Scan).(coffee and social protest)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... A big protest took place in late February at the Starbucks annual meeting in Seattle. "MOCHA IS SLAVERY" the signs proclaimed. "ESPRESSO KILLS BIRDS" and "STOP THE WHAMS." In case you're not current on left-wing epithets, "WHAMS" are white...

Torn free. (Scan).(children and television)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In 2001, ten-year-old Cory Rundle gave up TV. For an entire year, no Raymond, no Homer, no old movies, no football games. He didn't even play a single video game. Now that Cory's bet with his dad is won, and he can watch all the TV he wants,...

And the owners need shrinks. (Scan).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the number of certified pet chiropractors has risen to 600, and that there are now 55 certified pet dentists in the country. Reporter Sarah Collins spoke with a North Palm Beach retiree who put...

In defense of global capitalism. (Pfizer forum: advertisement).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The current debate about globalization presupposes that the world is rapidly going to the dogs. In particular, the world is said to have become increasingly unfair. The chorus of the debate on the market economy runs: "The rich are getting...

Silver lining to the tech-wreck. (Forward Observer).(financial success of Amazon.com Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Almost since it went public nearly five years ago, the online retailer Amazon.com has been a poster child for Internet skeptics. How, they groused, could a new company selling books over the World Wide Web be worth more than Sears, Federated...

John Zogby: as a political prognosticator, he has an unequaled record. He's a liberal who often spots conservative electoral strengths other trend watchers miss. It's no accident he insists on living and working in "the Real America." Meet the red hot pollster ... ("Live" with TAE).(Interview)
April 1, 2002... John Zogby vaulted onto the national scene with his dead-on prediction of final vote totals in the 1996 Presidential election. He currently conducts polls for Reuters, NBC News, dozens of newspapers, and a host of major organizations and...

What's so great about America?
April 1, 2002... The newcomer who sees America for the first time typically experiences emotions that alternate between wonder and delight. Here is a country where everything works: The roads are paper-smooth, the highway signs are clear and accurate, the...

Back toward orthodoxy: a conservative resurgence sweeps American religion.(conservatism in religion)
April 1, 2002... Many Americans know that in recent decades the nation's more conservative and evangelical churches have been growing much faster than mainline faiths. What you may not know is that even within major liberal denominations of Methodism and...

State of the Nation.
April 1, 2002... Every decade, the U.S. Bureau of the Census takes our nation's pulse. These detailed results complement other findings gathered through the year by private and government data collectors, providing a vivid picture of where our society is...

America's strong heart. (Transcript: words worth repeating).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Excerpted from a recent speech by poet and TAE contributing writer Frederick Turner. (His full text will be published in the American Arts Quarterly.) American society has a surface layer of fashionable, transient, amoral, inhuman...

The rigors of sleep. (In real life: first-person America).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... NEW YORK, NEW YORK--Mid-life hits everyone with a different set of blues. Some people lament a departed waist and the arrival of its surrogate, a pair of well defined love handles. Others have to contend with mate separation, empty nest...

America's homegrown terrorists. (Terror Watch).(terrorist activities of the Earth Liberation Front)
April 1, 2002... Enron CEO Kenneth Lay wasn't the only one pleading the Fifth Amendment on Capitol Hill in February. Testifying on February 13 before a House committee investigating terrorism committed in the U.S. in the name of environmentalism, former Earth...

They voted against Mother's Day. (Flashback).(holiday history)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In the annals of easy votes, one might expect to find a prominent place for the congressional resolution to establish Mother's Day. Yet the first Mother's Day legislation was actually hooted down. Mother's Day was the brainchild of Anna...

Why elites hate sweet Amelie. (Now Playing).
April 1, 2002... Film critics with a highly political bent always run the risk of being out of touch. But they've looked especially ludicrous denouncing the popular recent movie import Amelie. The highest-grossing French movie in North American history, and the...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology. (Booktalk: taking Zolzhenitsyn seriously).
April 1, 2002... By Daniel J. Mahoney Rowman & Littlefield, 200 pages, $21.95 The Soviet Union has vanished from the map, the Cold War has ended, and communism lies discredited. Yet the West has unfinished business with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Experts do...

The New Intifada: Resisting Israel's Apartheid. (Booktalk: blaming the victim).
April 1, 2002... Edited by Roane Carey Verso, 320 pages, $20 The New Intifada is a collection of articles, written mainly by journalists and activists, blaming Israel and the United States for every possible problem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards. (Booktalk: the big sleazy).
April 1, 2002... By Tyler Bridges Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 480 pages, $27 What do you get when you take a state with a notoriously corrupt political tradition and combine it with an industry that reeks of organized crime, all presided over by a governor...

Robert Duvall's next little gems. (Hollywood Report).(new film projects)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... The success of Robert Duvall's 1998 film The Apostle surprised many in the big Hollywood studios who never would have bet on a project about a Pentacostal evangelist whose sermons bring about powerful religious conversions. Now Duvall and his...

The digest: summaries of important new research from the nation's universities, think tanks, and investigative publications.(various articles on society and economics)
April 1, 2002... ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS Who Should Set Standards? James Surowiecki, "Turn of the Century," in Wired (January 2002), 520 Third Street, San Francisco, California 94107 According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology,...

Racial progress. (Opinion Pulse).(population statistics)(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... People of all races overestimate the size of the black, Hispanic, and Asian populations in the United States. Whites, Hispanics, and Asians say that they are satisfied with their household income. Although blacks and Hispanics lag behind whites...

The mail.
April 1, 2002... Ben Wattenberg misstates several statistics and confuses several arguments that Pat Buchanan makes ("Immigration: a Cause of the Clash of Civilizations... Or a Solution To It?" March 2002). Among other things, he pooh-poohs Buchanan by noting...

Last gasp.
April 1, 2002... "Write down what you want me to say and I'll be happy to give you my advice." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I've Instructed the nanny to find out why the children won't communicate with me." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He's been in here...