Let's finger some false prophets who often escape public ridicule because enough time has elapsed since they made their foolish predictions.
Here's that salesman of the virtues, Bill Bennett, who once co-chaired the Council on Crime...
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23 December 2000
Thinking of sending an end-of-year contribution to a public interest outfit, perhaps one of the big green groups? Why not pass up the outfits with big staffs and excessive overhead in favor of less well known, but nonetheless lean and...
20 December 2000
Can you imagine if it was the other way round, and it was Bush who'd won the popular vote but lost the electoral college after a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by Democratic appointees had voted 5-4 to stop counting votes likely to assure a...
13 December 2000
Newton Minow, a former board member of the Federal Communication Commission, wrote a book a few years ago attacking TV and famously saying it had produced "a vast wasteland," inhabited by comatose Americans watching soaps and quiz shows...
06 December 2000
They'd rather die than admit it, but environmental organizations thrive on disaster. They remember well enough what happened when Ronald Reagan installed James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. Hardly had Watt hung his elk head on his...
29 November 2000
Exactly this time a year ago, a truly prescient person monitoring bus, car and plane traffic into the city of Seattle could have predicted that Al Gore's presidential bid faced serious trouble on its left. The mostly young people pouring...
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