by Andrew West | Nov 8, 2000 | POLITICS
Last week, while going through a pile of international research, I saw a report that shocked me: it was an analysis of defensive stocks with low valuations in Hong Kong. I hadn’t seen defensive-value-themed research of that sort for at least two years, as... by Walter Williams | Nov 8, 2000 | POLITICS
By appearance alone, no one would ever guess that next year I’ll celebrate my 65th birthday. Going by this year’s presidential campaign promises, simply by surviving 65 years I acquire the right to have my prescription drugs paid by younger Americans.... by Walter Williams | Nov 7, 2000 | Elections
Our elected officials simply mirror our contempt for constitutional principles and our desire to live at the expense of our fellow American.
by Robert W Tracinski | Nov 6, 2000 | Elections, POLITICS
The voters face a clear choice in tomorrow’s election — it’s just too bad the candidates don’t want to admit that fact. Underneath all the muddled rhetoric on the campaign trail, everybody senses what this election is really about. It’s... by Paul Craig Roberts | Nov 5, 2000 | Economics
Keynesians continue to peddle their snake oil because the real function of their “economics” is to justify Big Government and the redistribution of income.
by Thomas Sowell | Nov 5, 2000 | POLITICS
The story about George W. Bush’s minor brush with the law, two dozen years ago, tells more about the people who leaked this to the press, on the eve of the election, than it does about Governor Bush. Add to this the innuendoes about Ralph Nader’s sex life... by Walter Williams | Nov 5, 2000 | POLITICS
Here’s what the 1936 government pamphlet on Social Security said: “After the first 3 years — that is to say, beginning in 1940 — you will pay, and your employer will pay, 1.5 cents for each dollar you earn, up to $3,000 a year. …... by Paul Craig Roberts | Nov 5, 2000 | POLITICS
Conservatives and Republicans are ecstatic about the bond buy-back and debt pay-down policy now in effect. This is misplaced joy and a political miscalculation. Every dollar that we use to pay down the debt has an opportunity cost. Each dollar could be used in a... by Dr Michael Hurd | Nov 4, 2000 | Education
A new poll claims that a large majority of American parents are very happy with their child’s public school. This is certainly not my experience. I am a family therapist in Montgomery County, Maryland — the location of one of the “best” public...