by Walter Williams | Jan 14, 2001 | POLITICS
Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law, new...
by Michelle Malkin | Jan 13, 2001 | POLITICS
O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran and friends want to file a big-bucks, class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery. On what legal grounds, against whom, on behalf of whom, and in which court? The attorneys haven’t figured out those pesky details yet....
by Thomas Sowell | Jan 12, 2001 | Antitrust & Monopolies, POLITICS
The biggest question about anti-trust law is whether there really is any such thing. There are anti-trust theories and anti-trust rhetoric, as well as judicial pronouncements on anti-trust. But there is very little that could be called law in the full sense of rules...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Jan 12, 2001 | Foreign Policy
Bush’s new national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, says that the new administration will combine “humility with strength” in foreign affairs. Why should America be humble? We should be proud of who we are and what we have been able to...
by Walter Williams | Jan 12, 2001 | POLITICS
If the November elections had put Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, I would have expected John Conyers, D-Mich., to introduce legislation that would set up a committee to decide who would qualify for reparations for slavery, whether they should be...
by Thomas Sowell | Jan 11, 2001 | POLITICS, Price Controls
As an economist, whenever I hear the word “shortage” I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually “price control.” So it was no great surprise to discover, after the electric power shortage in California made headlines, that...
by Andrew West | Jan 11, 2001 | Elections, POLITICS
During elections last weekend, Thai billionaire businessman Thaksin Shinawatra won a landslide victory, and barring certain legal challenges, will become Thailand’s next prime minister. As owner of Thailand’s largest wireless wireless communications...
by Edwin Feulner | Jan 11, 2001 | POLITICS
On-again, off-again experiments with free-market policies don’t lead to happy economic endings In a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie “Rear Window,” Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly argue about whether they’ll ever marry. Kelly wants...
by Walter Williams | Jan 10, 2001 | Elections, POLITICS
Election 2000’s racial message is that President-Elect George Bush and the Republican Party shouldn’t subsidize political stupidity. You say, “What do you mean, Williams?” Given Bush’s devastating loss among black voters, in some states...
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