by James Glassman | Mar 25, 2001 | POLITICS
The date was Dec. 5, 1996. The scene was the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel. The speaker was Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, keeper of the nation’s money. He had been droning on for 45 minutes with an address on the 83-year...
by Thomas Sowell | Mar 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Has anyone ever pleaded with you not to buy a Rolls Royce? The argument might go like this: So much expensive materials and so many man-hours of highly-skilled hand labor go into producing a Rolls Royce that, if everyone had one, it would drain so many resources and...
by Michelle Malkin | Mar 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Get ready for the red-carpet parade of egos. It’s Oscar time again. Millions will tune in this weekend to gawk and swoon as the world’s most famous actors and actresses celebrate their favorite subject — themselves. As the night of a thousand stars...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Mar 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Q: What is the difference between what is “immoral” and what is “criminal”? Isn’t something criminal, so long as it’s objectively judged, also immoral? A: If something is rationally judged criminal, then by definition it’s...
by Aaron Schavey | Mar 24, 2001 | POLITICS
In his recent testimony before Congress, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick painted an attractive portrait of free nations “bound together by free trade.”But it is a portrait marred by a little-noticed Catch-22 of U.S. trade law that hurts Americans...
by James Glassman | Mar 24, 2001 | POLITICS
The date was Dec. 5, 1996. The scene was the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel. The speaker was Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, keeper of the nation’s money. He had been droning on for 45 minutes with an address on the 83-year...
by Thomas Sowell | Mar 23, 2001 | Free Speech, POLITICS
Despite media proclamations of “the public’s right to know” and frequent invocations of the First Amendment, there has been a deafening silence from the national media over the storm trooper tactics used on college campuses against student newspapers...
by David Mastio | Mar 23, 2001 | POLITICS
Barely moments after the Bush White House announced their decision to appoint a respected Harvard researcher to be the administration’s regulatory czar at the Office of Management and Budget, the left-wing advocacy group Public Citizen produced a 130-page hit...
by Thomas Sowell | Mar 22, 2001 | POLITICS, Price Controls
The last time so many people were as bedeviled as the people of California are today by electrical blackouts was back in 1979, when motorists in cities across the country were lined up for hours at filling stations, waiting to get gas. Both shortages had the same...
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