No Cure for Generational Pain

If you thought the public uproar over George W. Bush’s use of an expletive last [month] was big, imagine the national horror he would have provoked if he had said he was against offering any new Medicare benefits for the elderly. Al Gore wants to throw $250...

A is non-A: Gore’s Deceptive Telephone Tax

VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE, aided and abetted by Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, fought for and succeeded in amending the Telecommunications Act of 1996 such that a universal services fund was created to subsidize telecommunications services for...

The Truth About Social Security

Americans, it would seem, have far more attachment to the Social Security system than they have knowledge of it. I say this from observing how easy it is for Democratic politicians to make Americans anxious that Republicans are out to harm the system. That Social...

The Politics of Education

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...

Unlike Gore, Ralph Nader is the Real Thing

In recent years, the Democratic Party has moved to the right. In most respects this has been phony P.R., of course, such as Clinton’s proclamation that “The Era of Big Government Is Over” — with his actions (from the Hillary health plan of 1994...

How Clinton-Gore Helps the OPEC Cartel

We Americans are going to pay through our noses to stay warm this winter, and we can thank our elected and unelected officials in Washington. Let’s analyze the economics of it by starting with an example. Pretend you own a supermarket. What would you want the...