by Stephen Johnson | Nov 4, 2003 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
Members of Congress who want to lift the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba — and there are many — aren’t motivated by a desire to help its infamous dictator Fidel Castro. They simply want to stop “imposing limits on the American people’s right... by Don Luskin | Nov 4, 2003 | POLITICS
Stock market punditry is a tough game, and victories are few and far between even for the best of us. So when a victory comes along, you do a victory lap. The third quarter’s gross-domestic product growth rate of 7.2% was a big victory. Representing the biggest... by Bruce Bartlett | Nov 4, 2003 | POLITICS
The Great Depression remains the central economic event in American history. Even today, politicians invoke its memory. For example, Democrats routinely accuse George W. Bush of having economic policies like those of Herbert Hoover, on whose watch the depression... by Thomas Sowell | Nov 4, 2003 | POLITICS
In this age of specialization, experts are said to know more and more about less and less. There are undoubtedly specialists who can tell you more than you ever wanted to know about toenails or toads. However, the grand study of sweeping events has not died out... by James Glassman | Nov 3, 2003 | POLITICS
The late Benjamin Graham — erudite classicist, mentor to Warren Buffett, highly successful investor and probably the greatest financial mind of the 20th century — said it best: “The investor’s chief problem — and even his worst enemy... by Daniel J Mitchell | Nov 3, 2003 | POLITICS
Our tax code has many ridiculous features, but the booby prize may belong to a provision that discourages companies from investing profits in America and instead encourages them to keep money overseas. It’s a 35 percent tax penalty imposed on American companies... by Walter Williams | Nov 2, 2003 | POLITICS
People think runaway government is the only thing that bothers me, but there’re some minor nuisances that bother me as well. Chief among them are people’s seeming inability to differentiate between the number zero and the letter “o” in... by Scott A. McConnell | Nov 2, 2003 | POLITICS
James Long jumped out of bed and into his clothes. While rushing from his tiny bedroom plastered with photos of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and King’s Quest, he grabbed a bag of computer disks off his work desk. James was 13, black and a young man in a hurry. He flew... by Berton Braley | Nov 1, 2003 | CULTURE, POLITICS
Why shouldn’t the soul of a mortal be proud? Life goes, it is true, like a swift-flying cloud But while it is going and ere he has died A man may do many things worthy of pride The high and the humble, the meek and the brave, Are all of them destined in time for...
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