by Dr Michael Hurd | Jun 16, 2001 | Free Trade, Protectionism & Tariffs, POLITICS
Q: Should a free country trade with people who live under a dictatorship (e.g. China, Cuba)? And, if not, should the government of the free country restrict such trade with dictatorships? A: If you enjoy living in a free country, then you benefit from that freedom...
by Larry Elder | Jun 15, 2001 | Crime, POLITICS
“America’s Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools — It’s Illegitimacy,” reads Chapter 5 from my book, “The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America.” Absentee, non-involved fathers are the primary reason behind...
by Walter Williams | Jun 14, 2001 | POLITICS
THERE’S A STORY about a visitor to an Indian reservation who sees a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer uncontrollably crying. He asks, “Why are you crying?” The officer sobs, “My Indian died.” The officer didn’t give a hoot about the...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Jun 13, 2001 | POLITICS
Q: You condemn Gore Vidal for claiming that Timothy McVeigh has a sense of justice. You’re wrong. However unfortunate his target due to his ignorance of the presence of the day care center, remember that the Department of Justice and the FBI’s HRT did know...
by Tom Koppel Ph.D. and Jay Reynolds | Jun 12, 2001 | POLITICS
Part 2 of 2 By Tom Koppel Ph.D. and Jay ReynoldsThere are six major types of fuel cells with potential for a variety of commercial applications. The first to be fired into space was the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, which was developed by GE and performed...
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 11, 2001 | POLITICS
MY FELLOW-ECONOMIST WALTER WILLIAMS has for years kept track of how much money it would take to lift every American man, woman and child in poverty above the official poverty level. That sum has consistently been some fraction of the money actually spent in...
by Mark Da Cunha | Jun 10, 2001 | Antitrust & Monopolies, Business, Energy, Regulation
The attacks against deregulation of the California power industry by the enemies of capitalism are attacks against a straw man. Deregulation means that government removes onerous regulations that violate the rights of producers and consumers to trade freely (markets...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Jun 9, 2001 | Education, POLITICS
Q : My wife and I want to teach our four-year-old son to have self-confidence. How can we teach him? A: This is too vast a subject to appropriately answer in a short column. I can, however, give you some general principles. Here they are:Make sure you are confident...
by Conrad F. Meier | Jun 9, 2001 | POLITICS
A new national survey, sponsored by the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) and co-sponsored by the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, reveals considerable support among small...
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