By WESLEY PRUDEN

This is not what Barack Obama expected for a coming-out party. The “historic” revelation that he is now fully evolved, as from tadpole to frog, and now grooves on same-sex marriage, was meant to be marked with quiet ceremony. No music, no flowers, no kiss, no dancing, not even a cupcake.

Rage and outrage over same-sex marriage would take everybody’s mind off the dreary economy, which whimpers on. Everybody was then supposed to shut up and get back to work (for those with work).]]> pauljenkins@gci.net (Paul Jenkins) frontpage Thu, 17 May 2012 15:37:19 +0000 http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2635:williams-51612&catid=34:editorials http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2635:williams-51612&catid=34:editorials Should we obey all laws?

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS

By THOMAS SOWELL

When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks - beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work - that might seem to have been news that should have been reported, at least by their own newspaper. But it wasn't.

"The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel was the first major television program to report this incident. Yet this story is not just a Norfolk story, either in what happened or in how the media and the authorities have tried to sweep it under the rug.

By SCOTT BANKS

It’s bad form to read restaurant reviews before you go to a restaurant to review it. But I couldn’t resist. Ling & Louie’s earned some bad ink and a fair amount of good ink. The beef that kept rising to the top was the lousy service. So I walked in prepared to get cranky and wait. That foul mood never materialized, the service was always prompt, friendly and helpful and the food was good, too.

By TOM BRENNAN

I've been spending time on the East Coast lately and been getting some important insights on the difference between East and West.

For one, all the primetime television shows run an hour later in the East than they do at home in Anchorage. Then the evening news is on at 11 p.m., followed by Jay Leno and David Letterman at 11:30. At home we get the late news, weather and sports at 10, leaving our favorite practitioners of high-school humor on at the decent hour of 10:30.]]> pauljenkins@gci.net (Paul Jenkins) frontpage Fri, 11 May 2012 17:07:16 +0000 http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2626:sowell-51212&catid=34:editorials http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2626:sowell-51212&catid=34:editorials Who is 'racist'?: Part II

By THOMAS SOWELL

Around this time of year, I sometimes hear from parents who have been appalled to learn that the child they sent away to college to become educated has instead been indoctrinated with the creed of the left. They often ask if I can suggest something to have their offspring read over the summer, in order to counteract this indoctrination.

This year the answer is a no-brainer. It is a book with the unwieldy title, "No matter what ... they'll call this book Racist" by Harry Stein, a writer for what is arguably America's best magazine, "City Journal." In a little over 200 very readable pages, the author deftly devastates with facts the nonsense about race that dominates much of what is said in the media and in academia.]]> pauljenkins@gci.net (Paul Jenkins) frontpage Fri, 11 May 2012 17:25:02 +0000 http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2624:cato-51112&catid=34:editorials http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2624:cato-51112&catid=34:editorials Europe's failed 'austerity'

By MICHAEL D. TANNER
In the wake of French and Greek elections last weekend, the backlash against European austerity is now in full swing. Meanwhile, in the U.S., advocates of big government are insisting that the European debacle proves we must reverse our efforts to reduce debt and deficits. After all, Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times, “claims that slashing government spending would somehow encourage consumers and businesses to spend more have been overwhelmingly refuted by the experience of the past two years.”]]> pauljenkins@gci.net (Paul Jenkins) frontpage Fri, 11 May 2012 15:45:42 +0000 http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2623:toon-51012&catid=34:editorials http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2623:toon-51012&catid=34:editorials ]]> pauljenkins@gci.net (Paul Jenkins) frontpage Thu, 10 May 2012 17:50:42 +0000 http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2620:cato-5912&catid=34:editorials http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2620:cato-5912&catid=34:editorials Of course 70 percent tax
rates are counterproductive

By ALAN REYNOLDS

President Obama and others are demanding that we raise taxes on the "rich," and two recent academic papers that have gotten a lot of attention claim to show that there will be no ill effects if we do.

The first paper, by Peter Diamond of MIT and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, appeared in the Journal of Economic Perspectives last August. The second, by Mr. Saez, along with Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and Stefanie Stantcheva of MIT, was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research three months later. Both suggested that federal tax revenues would not decline even if the rate on the top 1 percent of earners were raised to 73 percent-83 percent.]]> pauljenkins@gci.net (Paul Jenkins) frontpage Thu, 10 May 2012 15:29:08 +0000 http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2618:williams-5912&catid=34:editorials http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2618:williams-5912&catid=34:editorials Leftist race-baiters

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS