The SUV is under attack. Greens say they use too much gas, threaten air quality and contribute pell-mell to the desecration of the environment. So why would anyone build these horrible engines of death? They build them because SUVs have advantages in safety, cargo space and power that Americans demand. [...]
Archive | May, 2001
Orchestrating Energy Disaster
Walter Williams (2001.05.30 ) Politics
One needn’t be a rocket scientist to create California’s energy problems. According to the California Energy Commission, from 1996 to 1999 electricity demand, stimulated by a booming economy, grew by 12 percent while supply grew by less than 2 percent. Here’s how California created its supply crunch. It takes two [...]
Nations United Against Rights
Robert W Tracinski (2001.05.30 ) Politics
On Friday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with congressional leaders to assuage their anger at America’s ejection from the UN’s Human Rights Commission. The meeting seems to have been a success; it looks as if Republicans in Congress will give up their attempt to block $244 million in UN dues. Thus [...]
Anti-Intellectualism Runs Rampant in U.S. Education
George Clowes (2001.05.29 ) Politics
Diane Ravitch research professor at New York University and holds the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and is author of the book Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. Clowes: What prompted you to write Left Back? Ravitch: When I began the [...]
Basic Economics
Walter Williams (2001.05.29 ) Politics
Dr. Thomas Sowell has just released his latest treasure — it’s title is “Basic Economics.” Reading through the book reminded me of a 30-plus-year-old conversation I had with Professor Armen Alchian, one of my tenacious mentors during my graduate training at UCLA. Alchian said that the true test of whether [...]
The Executor’s Song: Part 6, Closing the Estate and Other “Stuff”
Alan Luber (2001.05.29 ) Politics
Author’s Note: This is the sixth and final part of a series of personal finance columns on the subject of being the executor of an estate. These columns are based on my own personal experiences in this regard. Individuals should consult a professional advisor and take their own circumstances into [...]
Fire in the “Frankenforest”
Michelle Malkin (2001.05.28 ) Politics
A jihad against some of America’s best and brightest researchers continues unabated. Arsonists struck again in the Pacific Northwest this week, gutting a University of Washington horticultural lab in Seattle and burning down property at a poplar tree nursery in Clatskanie, Ore. The fires caused an estimated $3 million in [...]
Jim Jeffords’ Defection and the High Cost of Politics
Thomas Sowell (2001.05.27 ) Politics
In the years ahead, more violent criminals may be walking the street, some taking the lives of law-abiding citizens, because someone in the White House couldn’t keep his big mouth shut about how they were going to retaliate against Republican Senator Jim Jeffords for not voting the way the administration [...]
The California Energy Crisis: Once Again Capitalism Takes The Fall For Statism
Emmanuel Forgolou (2001.05.27 ) Politics
Politicians and pundits claim that the free market has had its chance and failed, calling for a government takeover of the electric utilities and power plants as the solution. The tragic irony is that California’s energy nightmare would have been absolutely impossible in a properly functioning free market. Capitalism has [...]
Moody Markets, or Manipulated Markets?
Alan Luber (2001.05.27 ) Politics
One of the things we often hear about the stock market is that it is an anticipatory animal, meaning that bear markets begin when the economy is good but people fear that things will get worse in the future, and that conversely, bull markets begin when the economy is bad [...]
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