Higher Productivity Creates Opportunity

by | Sep 30, 2003 | POLITICS

The slow pace of job creation is clearly the most serious political and economic problem in the country today. Although Democrats and the press continue to focus on Iraq, President Bush and congressional Republicans know that the sluggish economy is a far greater...

Random Thoughts for September 2003

by | Sep 30, 2003 | POLITICS

Random thoughts on the passing scene: If you have a right to respect, that means other people don’t have a right to their own opinions. My computer operating system is so out of date that people don’t even write viruses for it any more. If the debate among...

The Mounting Threat of Homegrown Terrorism

by | Sep 29, 2003 | POLITICS, Terrorism

As we combat Islamic terrorism abroad, we must recognize the deadly threat posed by a homegrown source–one that since 1997 has been responsible for over 600 attacks and has inflicted more than $100 million in property damage. The attacks have become bolder,...

School Performances

by | Sep 29, 2003 | Education, POLITICS

Many of the pronouncements coming from those who run our public schools range from fallacies to frauds. The new book “No Excuses” by Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom exposes a number of these self-serving lies. You may have heard how hard it is to find...

Does Capitalism need Civilizing?

by | Sep 28, 2003 | POLITICS

QUESTION: “Do you think socialism was able to ‘civilize’ or ‘tame’ capitalism by 1914? Or do you think that capitalism did not need to be ‘civilized’ or ‘tamed’.” ANSWER: First we must define our terms....

Improving the Quality of Education

by | Sep 26, 2003 | POLITICS

My son learned fractions and decimals when he was in the first grade. He learned them from me as I drove him to school on the Los Angeles freeways, where he became curious about the signs that said things like “Wilshire Boulevard 2 1/4 miles.” At the...

In Defense of Supply-Side Economics

by | Sep 26, 2003 | Economics, POLITICS

In a recent column, I defended supply-side economics from an attack by Princeton economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times Magazine. One of the rare civil criticisms I got came from my friends at TAPPED, the web log of the liberal American Prospect magazine. Their...