by James Glassman | Jul 27, 2003 | POLITICS
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... by Tom DeWeese | Jul 26, 2003 | POLITICS
The Bush administration’s Faith-based Initiative (S.476) is misguided and will not achieve its stated goal to use private organizations and private charitable programs as a means to cut the federal budget and return “caring” to its proper place in... by Robert W Tracinski | Jul 25, 2003 | POLITICS
Why do so many people hate Martha Stewart? How does a home-decorating expert with a wholesome public persona come to be portrayed as a major cultural villain? Consider the latest media frenzy over Stewart’s indictment for obstruction of justice. If the... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 25, 2003 | POLITICS
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Have you ever heard a single hard fact to back up all the sweeping claims for the benefits of “diversity”? Some people were upset, not by Dusty Baker’s off-hand remark that races differ in their responses to hot... by Michelle Malkin | Jul 25, 2003 | POLITICS
Shame on the Secret Service. This week, it investigated renowned editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez like he was some left-wing homeless crackpot who had sent President Bush an anthrax-laced death threat — all because Ramirez drew a provocative cartoon that was... by Bruce Bartlett | Jul 25, 2003 | POLITICS
Recently, I discussed new IRS data showing that the share of total income going to the richest 400 individuals has increased. However, income is an imprecise measure of well-being. That is better measured by wealth. A new study by the Federal Reserve sheds important... by Alan Caruba | Jul 24, 2003 | POLITICS
When I served in the Army, the sergeant would say, “Smoke’m if you have’m.” Most of us would, too. I am still a cigar smoker. The question is—how long before some storm trooper busts in the front door to tell me I can’t smoke any... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 24, 2003 | POLITICS
The Vietnam War showed how dangerous it is to allow a President of the United States to lie us into armed conflict, as Lyndon Johnson did by inflating a minor incident in the Gulf of Tonkin into a means of stampeding Congress into authorizing an escalation of military... by Walter Williams | Jul 23, 2003 | POLITICS
Whenever someone says that this or that government program is absolutely necessary, I always wonder, “What did people do and how did they survive before the program?” If someone says food stamps are absolutely necessary for poor people’s survival, I...
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