The American Enterprise articles from October 2000

The American Enterprise archives from October 2000

Land of the Meat Eaters.
October 1, 2000... In a country as sprawling as ours, it's not easy to keep your finger on the American pulse. One way we at The American Enterprise stay on top of things is by living and working in several different states. Another way is by assembling a team of...

Sidelights.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Sara Jane Olson, the accused Symbionese Liberation Army bombplotter, is hawking her new cookbook, Serving Time: America's Most Wanted Recipes, as part of a "media campaign to show people she's a civic-minded Susie Homemaker, not a wild-eyed SLA...

A TAX PHANTOM IS STALKING YOU.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2000... If you were an unscrupulous tax-and-spend politician, you'd be frustrated by the unpopularity of tax hikes. It puts you in a bind: Most of the money that comes in each year is already targeted for old programs. So how are you going to find...

BETTER TO WORRY ABOUT LIGHTNING AND SHARK ATTACKS.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Kansas author Laird Wilcox, who has spent decades tracking extremist groups, notes that a whole "industry" of "watchdog" organizations has grown up to trumpet the dangers of fringe groups like the neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Yet the...

SISTER POWER.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... One of TAE's visits to Dallas coincided with a convivial organizational meeting of the Second Amendment Sisters, the grassroots pro-gun group that rose from the heartland to take on the conceived-in-Hollywood Million Mom March. The Sisters...

BULLETIN: TEENS CAN CHOOSE RIGHT.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2000... Last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that the teenage birth rate, which has edged downward every year since 1991, now stands at its lowest level in 60 years. No, this is not simply the result of more...

MORE THAN ONE CHOICE.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... "More than one choice" is the unofficial mantra of Feminists for Life (FFL). It brings to mind slogans early feminists employed to win the vote for women, and refers particularly to FFL's College Outreach Program, which provides pregnant...

P.C. IN THE W.C.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... You thought political correctness couldn't get nuttier. But you were wrong. Swedes have opened another front in the battle against male oppression: Men must stop going to the bathroom standing up. "The young, leftish intelligentsia"...

ENVIRONMENTAL GORE.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Texas Governor George Bush has been under heavy attack on environmental issues from presidential hopeful Al Gore and his green allies, who claim the Lone Star state is choking on pollution. Texas is a big target because it is a big...

REACTIONARIES CLING TO OLD-STYLE WELFARE.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... At the end of August, the government reported that since 1994--when the new Republican Congress announced it was going to institute a major welfare reform--the number of Americans on the dole has tumbled from 14.2 million to 6.3 million. And of...

DOUBLE DORM STANDARDS.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... For years, tony colleges have sneered at the military for worrying about open homosexuals in the ranks. Indeed, a number of schools are supporting legal challenges to the services' policy. Some consider banning ROTC (though they usually decide...

FOREIGN POLICY AFTER CLINTON.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The Clinton administration's foreign policy has quietly piled up serious problems for our future. Let me spotlight its errors by contrasting some principles I think should govern foreign policy. * The quest for a blinding flash that will...

HOW VERY TOLERANT.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The New York State Education Department recently recommended that State Education Commissioner Richard Mills require all school districts to phase out Native American mascots. Given that hundreds of high schools in upstate New York (in...

Roger Staubach.(Interview)
October 1, 2000... A FOOTBALL STAR TURNED BUSINESS TITAN TALKS ABOUT HOW BOTH PARTS OF HIS LIFE HAVE UNFOLDED IN DALLAS, TEXAS. Roger Staubach's connection with the city of Dallas has an eerie beginning that started years before he began playing with the...

End the Surplus Now.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... We've come a long way from 1992, when the federal deficit hit a record, with Washington spending $290 billion more than it raised in taxes. As I write, just two months before fiscal year 2000 ends, Washington is projected to spend $232 billion...

Dallas prairie soul.
October 1, 2000... Think mid-American cities like Dallas have no inner life? You couldn't be more wrong. In my travels I often find myself having the following conversation: New Acquaintance: So, where do you live? Me: Dallas. New Acquaintance:...

Capital of capitalism.
October 1, 2000... The making of a great modern economy With a population now larger than that of 30 entire states, the Dallas area enters the twenty-first century experiencing some of the highest rates of economic expansion in the nation. In fact,...

Lost world.
October 1, 2000... A new Dallas replaces the old "Everything turns on the assassination," says Dallas Morning News columnist Bill Murchison. "The city has never recovered from the Kennedy assassination and never will, because it's become something...

Land of Big religion.
October 1, 2000... Like most things, religion is big in Dallas. You may think you've seen a "megachurch." In Dallas, they need a bigger word than that--empire springs to mind. Church buildings here sprawl over acres. Preachers reach out, by jet and satellite, to...

Sports city.
October 1, 2000... About 15 miles north of downtown Dallas, out beyond the Lyndon Baines Johnson Parkway, far enough away that the skyscrapers are reduced to specks on the Texas horizon, is where one has to go to find the Dallas Cowboys. Strange how the team that...

KIDS NEED MORE "NO'S" AND MORE THROWS.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... SAN DIEGO--It was offer I couldn't refuse. Who wouldn't want to teach at the same school their children attend? A few months into the experience, however, I became disillusioned with how America is raising its youth. During my time in the...

Clinton-Gore Swamp Fever.
October 1, 2000... The biggest, most complicated environmental public works project ever attempted by the U.S. government might just sink without a trace into south Florida's fabled Everglades. The project, officially the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration...

Late-night Politics.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... In 1992, Bill Clinton appeared on Arsenio Hall's late-night TV show, wearing his sunglasses and playing his saxophone. Clinton critics said such an appearance wasn't worthy of the office he was seeking, and argued that it blurred the line...

The Texan Who Saw Through Lyndon.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... J. Evetts Haley was raised in Midland, Texas, and worked his family's ranch along the Pecos River, punching cows instead of a time clock. As a young man he had an epiphany: "History was right here at home"; so he would spend his lifetime...

Another Trial Lawyer Scam.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Another Trial Lawyer Scam Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok, "Exporting Tort Awards," in Regulation (No. 2, 2000), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Helland, an economist at Claremont McKenna College,...

SOCIETY.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The Limits of Welfare Reform Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis, "Welfare Reform--Four Years Later" in The Public Interest (Summer 2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #530, Washington, D.C. 20036. Since welfare rolls hit their peak in March...

SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT.
October 1, 2000... The End of the Forest Service? Robert H. Nelson, A Burning Issue: A Case for Abolishing the U.S. Forest Service. Rowman and Littlefield, 4820 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706. When the U.S. Forest Service was created in 1905, its planners...

Virtue Matters Most.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Virtue Matters Most Lawrence Harrison, "Culture Matters," in The National Interest (Summer 2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #540, Washington, D.C. 20036. Forty years ago, two schools of development theory competed for followers. American...

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream By Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck North Point Press, 290 pages, $30 Andres Duany is one of the great men of our times, and for people...

The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust By John B. Judis Pantheon, 261 pages, $26 Any short list of today's best liberal writers would include New Republic senior editor John B. Judis....

Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence Edited by Herbert Agar and Allen Tare 1936; re-issued by ISI Books, 1999 Who Owns America? pushed its way into the Depression years with all the impact, not of a cannon ball, but of a...

THE DEATH PENALTY.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Support for the death penalty for a person convicted of murder has dropped from its all time high (80 percent in 1994), but it is still strong. About a quarter of the population believe the death penalty is applied too often, but 60 percent say...

THE SUPREME COURT.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 2000... Confidence in the Supreme Court is up slightly from a quarter-century ago. Only about 15 percent of Americans say they have very little or no confidence in the body. Most don't see the Court as liberal or conservative. Majorities agree with the...

SMOKING AND TOBACCO LITIGATION.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Nearly a half-century ago, in 1954, more than 80 percent of respondents told Gallup they had heard or read that smoking could be a cause of lung cancer, and 39 percent thought the link had been established. Increased health consciousness has...

the Mail.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Regarding the June BIRD'S EYE, "Let Boys Be Boys": I have a son with a learning disability who has been in special education all of his 8 years in school. The feminist-influenced cultural establishment would not feel the way they do if they...

Last Gasp.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... "Our romance is over and I need to get on with my life. Will you marry me?" Zoltan successfully defends his World welterweight leafblower title. I have a rich, exhilarating inner life. What I don't have is an outer life. "Before...