Archive | July, 2000

(Address of Ambassador Armando Valladares’, Chief of the United State’s Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights’ Commission. Geneva, Switzerland, February 23, 1988) Mr. Chairman, I am not a career diplomat, and I am not an expert on the technical aspects of this organism. I will not speak in a detailed manner on the reports [...]

Over the last 250 years, the quality of life throughout the world has been transformed. Life expectancy has increased from nineteen years in 1750 to seventy years today, and practically everyone today lives better than a king in the 1700s. There has been more progress during this period than in the preceding 25,000 years. What [...]

On June 26, 2000 in an event arranged by President Clinton at the White House, Dr. Craig Venter, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Celera Genomics, announced that his company had completed the first assembly of the human genome. In one stroke, Celera’s achievement rendered the government-funded Human Genome Project obsolete. It demonstrated that the [...]

In recent years, the leftist parties of England and Germany returned to power by promising voters that they had turned their back on command and control, tax and spend, economic policies. Instead they promised to “transcend” the old right and left by pursuing an ill-defined “third way.” Recent policy actions by Tony Blair’s Labor party [...]

Some months ago MSNBC.com reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate raising the state tax on a six-pack of beer by 20 cents could reduce the nation’s gonorrhea rate by almost 9 percent.1 How are beer and a sexually transmitted disease linked? The CDC holds that beer consumed by young people [...]

So philosopher Mark Kingwell [Re: Burgled in the World's Best Country, National Post, July 12, 2000] believes that the cause of social ills like “crime and riots and beggars on the street” is the envy created by people experiencing poverty? Leaving aside all the anti-business, anti-productivity policies of our socialistic governments that sustain poverty, let’s [...]