In the old movie classic "The Treasure of Sierra Madre," armed men confront Humphrey Bogart, claiming to be police. "If you're policemen," he asked, "where are your badges?" "We don't need no stinkin' badges!" is the reply. On December 1st, the Supreme Court of the...
Some books are good, some are bad, but very few are real gems. One of these few gems is the recently published book "The Mystery of Capital" by Hernando de Soto. The subtitle tells what it is really about: "Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere...
A recent Census Bureau study of incomes in the United States not only reveals some interesting facts about the economic well-being of Americans, it reveals even more about the mindset of our times, especially among the intelligentsia. Amid pages and pages of tightly...
AMERICAN POLITICS, the only thing more amazing than the Democrats are the Republicans. How are the Democrats amazing? Let me count the ways. Whether it is petroleum, housing or teachers, Democrats restrict the supply and are then astonished at the inevitable bad...
Florida has now given us the most famous dimples since Shirley Temple and the most famous long count since Tunney and Dempsey. Meanwhile, the Gore camp has given us the most shameless lies since Bill Clinton. Lie number one is that there are "uncounted votes" out...
"Every vote must count!" has been the magic mantra of Florida judges who are trying to give Al Gore the electoral victory that the voters failed to give him. "Every guess must count!" is more like it, when courts start authorizing local Democratic officials in heavily...
The Florida Supreme Court has disgraced itself and undermined election laws, not just for this election in Florida but for future elections across the country. Any future losing candidate in a close election now knows that he need only create enough noise and...
A caller to the Rush Limbaugh program noticed something that has escaped the notice of all the high-priced lawyers, all the learned judges and all the media pundits. She pointed out that when she sees a disputed ballot being held up during the Florida manual recount,...
Incessant claims by Vice President Al Gore and his spokesmen that they want "every vote to count" is belied by everything the Gore camp has done in Florida. If the Democrats really wanted every vote to count, then they would have started a manual recount all over the...
The same ugly tactics that worked for the Clinton administration during impeachment are now being used by Al Gore in a last desperate effort to capture Florida and the presidency. These tactics include creating as much noise and chaos as possible in the media, with...
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 Gore...
As we confront the last election of the 20th century, we seem to have learned remarkably little from the tragic mistakes that have produced catastrophes around the world during this century. The collectivist mentality is still alive and well, despite the economic...
What amazes some media pundits is that Gov. George W. Bush has seized issues that have long belonged to the Democrats, such as education and Social Security. What should be more amazing is that education was ever the Democrats' issue in the first place. The Democrats'...
The justifiable outcry about the irresponsibility of the entertainment industry in feeding young people a steady diet of calloused violence and cheap sex would have more moral standing if it did not also reveal the double standards in the media and in politics. Public...
Bill Clinton says that the budget surplus cannot be used to reduce taxes because it would "cost" too much. Just what does that mean? It certainly does not mean that the government would have to give up doing something that it is already doing. The very fact that there...
Media pundits seem baffled that Vice President Al Gore is not doing better in the polls, since a prosperous economy is supposed to create voter support for the administration. But the voters may be wiser than the Beltway insiders, by not automatically crediting the...
All politicians come out 200 percent in favor of education, especially when an election is coming up. What that usually means is that they are prepared to dump more billions of taxpayer dollars down the bottomless pit of our failing public schools, whether or not that...
As election day approaches, look for Al Gore's campaign to get both desperate and ugly. Desperate not only because Gore's lead has vanished and Bush has edged ahead, but desperate also because this is the end of the line for Gore and everything he has worked for all...
Many people were amazed when Governor George W. Bush proposed reforming Social Security because Social Security was considered to be "the third rail" of American politics. But Social Security has now reached the point where it is going to give us all a big jolt if we...
No group votes more solidly for the Democrats than blacks -- and no group suffers more as a result than blacks. Political spin makes Democrats the best friends of blacks, the party of civil rights laws, the party of affirmative action and the party of social programs...
Despite the predictions of media pundits that Al Gore would clobber George W. Bush in televised debates, the Texas governor has at least held his own. Judging by poll results, he has actually done himself some good. While Gore is a master of debaters' tricks,...
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