Archive | July, 2003

In much of the liberal media, large-scale confrontations between police and people who are breaking the law are usually reported in one of two ways. Either the police used “excessive force” or they “let the situation get out of hand.” Any force sufficient to prevent the situation from getting out of hand will be called [...]

If you went to public school any time in the last 20 years, you can be forgiven if you think slavery is a uniquely American and Southern experience. That belief, fueled by the political correctness movement, is dead wrong. The evil system we call slavery existed long before the United States was ever thought of, [...]

Last week, the House voted 324 to 101 to make it easier for Americans to import lower-priced prescription drugs sold in Canada and Europe for their own use. It rejected a more sweeping proposal to allow such imports by drug wholesalers and pharmacies. The fact of the matter is that U.S. manufactured drugs sell for [...]

The nation’s most frenzied electoral battle since the 2000 presidential election — the effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis — offers dramatic evidence that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt. The Republican philosophy was once represented by the late Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, who opposed Medicare, favored a woman’s right to an abortion, and sanctioned [...]

On the heels of his visit with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, America’s peripatetic ex-president Jimmy Carter has accepted a new invitation. On June 4, Carter was asked by the administration of embattled Venezuelan president Hugo Ch

To invest is to defer. When you buy a company’s stock or a government agency’s bonds, you decide not to consume your cash today but to entrust it to an institution that, you hope, will produce rewards for you in the future. History shows that, if you make your choices with modesty, discipline and good [...]