by Jeff Jacoby | Jul 11, 2002 | POLITICS
Q: I sure hope Amtrak will get all the money it needs to keep operating, don’t you? I can’t believe there are people who would be willing to let the nation’s rail system grind to a halt. A: And I can’t believe that David Gunn, Amtrak’s... by Dr Michael Hurd | Jul 10, 2002 | Business
“There is no capitalism without conscience. There is no wealth without character,” President Bush told Wall Street yesterday. True. But if business owners are not smart enough to see that it’s in their own economic self-interest to be honest with... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 10, 2002 | POLITICS
Bill O’Reilly of “The O’Reilly Factor” is one of the few major media figures who does not hesitate to criticize Jesse Jackson, so it was appropriate that the author of a critical new book about Jackson appeared on that program. The book is... by Walter Williams | Jul 10, 2002 | POLITICS
President Bush said he was “deeply concerned” about some of the accounting practices in corporate America and called “outrageous” the disclosure that WorldCom, which is $32 billion in debt, had hidden $3.8 billion in expenses. The president... by Jeff Jacoby | Jul 9, 2002 | POLITICS
There are times, George Orwell is reputed to have said, when the first duty of an intelligent man is to restate the obvious. President Bush did his duty this week when he cut through the murk of the past nine years — the years of the Middle East “peace... by Larry Elder | Jul 9, 2002 | POLITICS
Winston Churchill, many say, once said, “A man younger than 30 who’s not a liberal has no heart and a man older than 30 who’s not a conservative has no brain.” But this fails to explain why so many Hollywood celebrities, even past their 30s,... by Robert W Tracinski | Jul 8, 2002 | POLITICS
Reporters, commentators and politicians have whipped themselves into a frenzy over the recent corporate accounting scandals, heaping abuse on corporate executives in general and demanding to see the perpetrators led away in leg-irons. But is this feeding frenzy... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 8, 2002 | Economics, Housing, POLITICS
While Senator Barbara Boxer is trying to get the federal government to declare more than two million acres in California off-limits to development, California’s other Senator, Diane Feinstein, has already brokered a deal that takes 16,500 acres off-limits.... by Michelle Malkin | Jul 7, 2002 | POLITICS
The New York Times reports that Senator Hillary Clinton is nearing completion of her memoirs. Well, not actually Mrs. Clinton. A small village of personal aides and professional hacks pitched in to research and write the $8 million book. No doubt Mrs. Clinton’s...
