Op-eds

5/12/08
High Gas Prices Are Not Something New (Defending Oil Speculators) (Fox News)

5/5/08
Real Economic Truth (Fox News)

4/28/08
Ethanol Mandates Cause Rising Food Prices (Fox News)

4/21/08
Gun-Free Zones Are Not Safe (Fox News)

4/16/08
McCain in the Middle? (Fox News)

4/14/08
Obama Bitter About Free Markets (Fox News)

4/9/08
Abortion Rate Among Black Women Far Exceeds Rate for Other Groups (Fox News)

4/7/08
Obama and Guns: Two Different Views (Fox News)

3/31/08
The 'Recession' Is a Media Myth (Fox News)

3/24/08
Blacks Have a Choice to Be, or Not Be a 'Victim' (Fox News)

3/19/08
Gun locks targeted in DC gun ban oral arguments (Jurist: Legal News & Research)

3/18/08
Going Up for Second: Gun rights@SCOTUS (National Review Online)

3/17/08
Financial Markets Are in a Mess (Fox News)

3/11/08
D.C. Gun Ban Proponents Ignore the Facts (Fox News)

3/05/08
Campaign-Finance Breakdown (Wall Street Journal)

3/03/08
No Global Warming Crisis (Fox News)

2/25/08
Columbine To Va. Tech To NIU: Gun-Free Zones Or Killing Fields? (Investors Business Daily)

1/28/08
'Stimulus' Package Won't Jolt Economy (Fox News)

1/14/08
Bad Brief: The Bush DOJ shoots at the Second Amedment (National Review Online)

1/7/08
BLOOMY'S BILLIONS: 'REFORMS' BOOST HIS '08 EDGE (New York Post)

12/27/07
The High Cost of Higher MPG restrictions (Human Events)

12/06/07
Media Coverage of Mall Shooting Fails to Reveal Mall's Gun-Free-Zone Status (Fox News)

11/27/07
Does the Fear of Jail Actually Prevent Crime? (Fox News)

11/27/07
Women's suffrage over time: The Gender Gap Isn't What Most Think (Washington Times)

11/13/07
A 'Tip' for Hillary: Admit Your Mistakes (Fox News)

11/2/07
DEATH PENALTY'S DEADLY VACATION (New York Post)

10/19/07
Get Your Hunt On: It’s good for the animals (National Review Online)

10/19/07
Teachers Packing Heat? (TCS Daily)

10/10/07
Guns Don't Kill Kids, Irresponsible Adults With Guns Do (Fox News)

9/26/07
Giuliani Bobs and Weaves on Gun Control Record (Fox News)

9/17/07
UNFAIR PRESS POWER (New York Post)

9/13/07
D.C. Handgun Ban (Fox News)

9/07/07
FALLING BRIDGES: THE NATION DOESN'T FACE A CRISIS (New York Post)

9/07/07
D.C.'s flawed reasoning (Washington Times)

8/31/07
The Endangered Species Act Out of Control (Fox News)

8/28/07
More Guns, Not Less, Would Prevent Shooting Massacres (Fox News)

8/20/07
Does Government Weather Forecasting Endanger Lives? (Fox News)

8/10/07
Should a Web Site Post Best Ideas for Successful Terrorist Plots? (Fox News)

8/02/07
Are salmon really endangered?. (Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon)

7/27/07
Life, Liberty . . . And the protection of property. (National Review Online)

7/26/07
Driving the Lemon Myth Off the Lot (Fox News)

7/17/07
Guns don't kill people, Phila. does (Philadelphia Inquirer)

7/17/07
Property-rights dispute (Washington Times)

7/02/07
Immigration Debate May Be Dead, but Flaws in Legislation Remain (FoxNews.com)

6/25/07
Pumping Out Bad Policies (TCSDaily.com)

6/20/07
Death as Deterrent(FoxNews.com)

6/19/07
It's Not Enough to Be 'Wanted': Illegitimacy has risen despite--indeed, because of--legal abortion (OpinionJournal.com)

5/29/07
Moore's Myths (Sicko) (FoxNews.com)

5/20/07
Billion-Dollar Bloomberg Run for White House Exposes Flaws in Campaign Finance Laws (FoxNews.com)

5/11/07
Conceal-carry was factor in stopping attack (Columbus Dispatch)

4/24/07
Debating Gun Control Laws (Washington Post Live Discussions)

4/23/07
Bans don't deter killers: Look what happened at Columbine and Virginia Tech, both ‘gun-free zones’. (USA Today)

4/19/07
Gun laws disarm the vulnerable, not killers (The Australian)

4/09/07
Flawed Laws Help Stalkers Victimize Women

3/25/07
The Crime-Statistics Con Job

3/22/07
Law and Order and Guns: Rudy has some funny views on guns; he’d better beware if Thompson enters the race.

3/12/07
Rearming: The D.C. gun ban gets overruled

3/11/07
Review of Clayton Cramer’s terrific new book, "Armed America"

2/07/07
'Concealing the Facts' (Correcting the New York TImes)

1/28/07
Gun scruples (Gun Show Regulations)

1/28/07
Reviewing CONFIRMATION WARS: PRESERVING INDEPENDENT COURTS IN ANGRY TIMES BY BENJAMIN WITTES

11/07/06
Electric Politics: Democrats are spreading fear over new computerized voting machines.

10/26/06
Special treatment for Air America

9/26/06
Hiring more police is the real answer

9/16/06
Data in Marjorie Cortez's gun piece disputed

9/14/06
NY GUN LAWS & THE GRANNY

8/08/06
Guns and Children, letter in NY Times

8/03/06
Stealing Garbage: Why would Republicans want to co-opt Democrats’ bad ideas?

7/26/06
A Fair Shot: New legislation aims to ease the unfair burden on gun-store operators.

7/06/06
A false safety

7/06/06
Look South: Americans could learn from Mexican elections

6/26/06
No Safety Lock: The U.N. shouldn’t be so sure gun-control works.

5/17/06
Friendly Fire: If McCain’s going to claim he’s a conservative on guns, then he’s got some explaining to do.

3/21/06
Defenseless Decision: Why were guns taken from law-abiding citizens in New Orleans?

3/01/06
Don't Mess With Texas

2/25/06
Liberal Road Rage

2/16/06
The criminal constituency

2/16/06
DON'T BLAME HUNTERS

1/27/06
Uncertain effects (Letters to the Editor on Assault Weapons Ban)

1/25/06
Pulling Rank (discusses Senate Republicans referencing ABA judicial rankings)

1/9/06
Gun Control Lessons for Bloomberg

1/1/06
A Girl's Guide to Guns (Book Review)

12/19/05
Silver's 'Controls' Don't Work

11/29/05
Biden's risky business

11/23/05
Crime increased after handguns outlawed (Letter)

11/20/05
DOES REGRESSION WORK? (Book Review)

11/9/05
Now We're Getting Somewhere: A silver lining in a gun ban

11/8/05
Power to the People: The Brazilian public has spoken, and they want their guns

11/3/05
Alito Will Be Hard to Portray as an Extremist

10/28/05
Don't blame American guns

10/28/05
Hype and Reality

10/20/05
Suiting Down: Congress guns for fairness?

10/22/05
Why Judges Aren't Smarter: The less sterling a candidate's record, the more likely Congress is to confirm.

9/23/05
A PHOTO-FIX FOR VOTING

9/13/05
Supreme Rhetoric: Remember the past when watching the hearings

8/31/05
A look at the positive side of price-gouging and greed

8/30/05
Roberts Can Expect Difficult Confirmation Process

8/23/05
Stop endangering employees

8/19/05
Canada Blames Us: Gun-control folly here, up north, across the pond...

8/16/05
An Organization Pregnant with Contradictions

8/3/05
Abortion 'Bans' aren't absolute

7/20/05
City�s assault-weapons ban ineffective and unneeded

7/19/05
Unserious Suggestions: Silly Democratic consultations

6/28/05
The Big Lie of the Assault Weapons Ban: The death of the law hasn't brought a rise in crime -- just the opposite.

6/3/05
GUN BANNERS WHO CAN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT

5/19/05
A bias against the best and brightest

5/12/05
Bogus discrimination claims

4/26/05
Time to Level Playing Field for Gun Makers

4/21/05
Abortion Legalization and the Crime Rate

4/11/05
Watch-list 'justice'

3/29/05
Right-to-carry law is the way to go

3/28/05
Affirmative Action Has Mixed Results for Cops

3/25/05
60 Minutes, Terrorists and Guns

3/23/05
Disarming Facts: The road to bad laws is paved with good intentions.

3/22/05
If Gun Background Checks Don't Work, Will 'Watch Lists' Be Any More Effective?

3/17/05
High on Hype: Congress �takes on� steroids

3/2/05
Good Samaritan Gun Use

3/1/05
The Felon Vote

2/28/05
Social Security Reform Won't Boost U.S. Debt

2/7/05
Eliminating Sentencing Guidelines Would Make Penalties More Equal

2/4/05
Ballistic Fingerprinting�s a Dud: Another failed gun-control strategy

1/14/05
Terrorism as an Excuse: Another CBS campaign

12/28/04
Shooting Blanks

12/7/04
What's Wrong with Players on Steroids?

11/16/04
Breaking the Siege in the Judge War

10/08/04
Queasy About The Economy?: May Be Headlines You Read

10/06/04
Gunning for Cheney

10/06/04
Partisan bias in newspapers?: A study of headlines says yes

9/29/04
District of Inequality: Citizens go unarmed in D.C. while pols are free to protect themselves

9/14/04
Sun Sets On Assault Weapons Ban, Legislation Conceived In Darkness

9/14/04
Misfires: John Kerry aims all over the map on guns.

9/10/04
Assault Weapons Ban Was Useless Anyway

9/3/04
Banning Guns In the U.K. Has Backfired

8/24/04
Let the Market Work Even During Disasters

8/18/04
Does Release Of Terror Info Do More Harm Than Good?

8/17/04
Sampling of entire state refutes selective error-data

7/28/04
Dems Won�t Permit Facts to Get In Way of �00 Election Myth

7/13/04
Unequal Punishment

7/12/04
Moore's Myths

7/1/04
The Democrats' Spin On Gun Control

6/30/04
Exploding the Fireworks Safety 'Threat'

6/29/04
Add Gun Control To Litany Of Misbegotten Gov't Plans

6/21/04
Are They Right?

6/15/04
More gun control isn't the answer (National Post)

5/21/04
Whither Gun Control?

5/11/04
Hacker hysteria

4/30/04
Voting machine conspiracy theories

4/29/04
Change to concealed carry law will make NH safer

4/22/04
Glorifying Guns?: The Dems� lip service is just empty rhetoric

4/17/04
Debating Guns

4/04/04
How can anyone oppose letting retired police carry guns?

3/25/04
A Weapon Surrendered: Gun-control groups concede the frivolity of the �assault-weapons ban.�

3/23/04
Australian Weapons bans miss the mark

3/21/04
Unemployment rate remains fairly low at 5.6%; survey reports firm deaths quicker than births

3/11/04
"Sentencing Fairness" Rules Backfired in Martha's Case

3/02/04
Not bulletproof

2/25/04
Gun Suit Reform Could Still Be Shot Down

2/6/04
Gun Control Remains a Loaded Issue for Democratic Candidates: The rhetoric may be toned down, but the aim remains the same

1/28/04
Athletes and Guns

1/22/04
Robbery Rates in Britain

1/14/04
Statistical Mishmash Muddles Unemployment Rates

1/6/04
Pilots Still Unarmed

1/2/04
Why People Fear Guns

1/1/04
Armed Sky Marshals Are Good, But Armed Pilots Are Better

12/19/03
Supreme Irrelevance: Will the high court be undone by political reality?

12/12/03
Baghdad's Murder Rate Irresponsibly Distorted

12/10/03
The same old myths live on about Florida, Nov. 2000

11/18/03
The 2004 Hunt: Presidential candidates on guns

11/17/03
Cheaper Drugs Are No Cure-All

11/14/03
The spin on gun control: Who Controls Congress will determine regulations

11/13/03
Banning "Terrorist Specials"?

11/07/03
Bound to Misfire

11/04/03
Caps on Campaign Spending firmly Entrench Incumbents

11/04/03
Assaulting the Ban

10/08/03
Rush, by the Numbers: The face of "social concern"?

10/02/03
Swiss Miss: Policymakers aiming in the wrong direction

9/22/03
Voting Data
Sometimes mistakes aren't mistakes

9/16/03
NYC's Latest Gun Misfires

9/8/03
Why High Court May Slam McCain's Law

9/8/03
Divorcing Voters, Again:
Supreme-court campaign-finance reform case gets heard

9/2/03
P.C. Air Security
When will our pilots be armed?

8/29/03
Gun control laws may be partly at fault in massacre

8/20/03
Half cocked: why most of what you see in the media about guns is wrong.

8/13/03
Should Off-duty police be banned from carrying guns?

8/11/03
The ban against public safety

8/11/03
Al-Qaida won't Forget Our Security Issue

8/1/03
Why don't media cover the good-news stories about guns?

7/28/03
City Hall's Gun Folly

7/23/03
The Drug World's Easy Riders

7/13/03
Letting Teachers Pack Guns Will Make America's Schools Safer

7/12/03
Right to carry would disprove horror stories

7/11/03
U.N. vs. Guns
An international gun-control fight.

7/02/03
When Welfare is Disguised as a Tax Cut

7/01/03
States may regret reforms

6/26/03
Armed and safer Iraqis

6/20/03
Dems Have Not Dropped Gun Control Agenda

6/11/03
Bad Sports
A church turns down $10,000 from sportsmen.

5/30/03
Scare Tactics on Guns and Terror

5/22/03
Pattern of Deceit is Deeper than Times Wants to Admit

5/13/03
The gun control debate

5/13/03
There are no gun free, safe zones

5/4/03
Gun control advocates' credibility on line

4/14/03
Arming of Pilots Is Way Overdue

4/02/03
When Gun Laws Don't Make Sense

4/02/03
Can U.S. Be More Secure By Arming Off-Duty Cops?

11/11/02
Bullets and Bunkum
The futility of 'ballistic fingerprinting.'

10/28/02
No magic bullet

10/23/02
Tough gun laws don't reduce crime

9/30/02
Much Ado About Nothing

Collection of some of my other op-eds