CONTENTS
CRIME
1. Crime and the Culture War
Kitty
Genovese died while her neighbors did nothing — and they're not the only ones
● Taiwan’s Crime Wave
2. Pity and Pride
Death penalty
“barbarians” are in good company
3. Enslaved by Rogues
Law and order
isn’t “blather” to everybody
4. Fair or Foul?
Exclusionary
rule hurts the innocent by protecting the guilty
5. Taking the Fifth
Liberals
ignore strong indications that Miranda ruling was big mistake
6. Miranda v. Atlanta
Here’s
another installment in the price we pay for the Warren Revolution
7. Not Counted
Victims’
sufferings don’t figure in the calculations of death row activists
8. Deadly Mercy
Crusaders
against capital punishment are killing people with kindness
9. Deterrence With a Vengeance
American
history disproves the idea that criminals can’t be cowed
● The Goodwife’s Tale
10.
Silly Notion
In America’s
war on crime, an obvious weapon is rarely used
11. The Price We Pay
Victims’
blood bears out dissenter’s warnings
RACE
12. Let’s Get One Thing Straight
Crime doesn’t
pit black against white
13. Easy Money
Brinks truck
free-for-all shows that liberalism’s legacy lives on
14. Between Devils and Angels
Concerning
North and South, the saying “It’s not all black and white” applies
15.
Founding Fathead?
It’s up to us
to prove Jefferson wrong about race
● Outlaws?
SEX
16. The Acid Test
We haven’t
yet answered abortion’s challenge
● A Tiny Tap-Dancer
17. Ground Zero
Who is less
than a person isn’t for us to say
18. They Don’t Know Beans
Liberal
ideologues turn statistics into silly putty
19. Love Stories
Twin beds
weren’t the hallmark of pre-sleaze Hollywood
● Hollywood’s Pied Pipers
● In the Family Way
FAITH
20. Nuttiness to the North
Some folks
love nothing better than raising Cain
21. Read the Instructions
Each
Christian is to turn the other cheek, but none can turn his neighbor’s
● The True
Justice
22. School and the Slaughterhouse
The “monkey
trial” pitted two recipes for progress against each other. Which tastes best?
23. A Nation Under God
“Moral
precepts of Jesus” aren’t unconstitutional
24. Players’ Prayers
Texans bow to
the rule of law — or is it to a bait and switch?
LAW
25. Whose Constitution?
The law of
the land isn’t what today’s judges say it is
26. Impeachment
“Yahoo”
remedy was instituted to ensure judicial responsibility
27. America Incorporated
Mutant
judicial doctrine has taken power out of the people’s hands
● Taking an Ax to Federalism
28. Marbury and McCulloch
Was John
Marshall the first judicial activist?
29. Living a Lie
Americans
used to argue over the Constitution’s true meaning. Now we discard it
● ‘Which
Is To Be Master?’
30. The Gordian Knot
Constitutional purists “can’t get there from here” — or can we?
31. Turning Back the Clock
Aging
left-wingers don’t want it, but it’s high time we corrected their mistakes
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