The IMF in Asia: Please Hold Your Applause
Last week I noticed two important articles in the press regarding the Asian recovery. “Fortune” magazine, representing the new “establishment” view, ran an article celebrating the Asian economic recovery, giving the IMF credit for the...Animal’s “Rights” Versus Man’s Rights: Animal “Rights” Activists Want to Sacrifice Man’s Rights
Human life versus animal life. This fundamental conflict of values was dramatized on June 23 in Washington D.C., when an animal rights march was opposed by AIDS victims marching in support of research on animals. It is an indisputable fact that many thousands of lives...The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
When I began to write this review, I hemmed and hawed about where to begin. Flipping through the meaty 764 pages, I was amused to note that the authors began the section entitled, “Using The Well-Trained Mind Without Losing Your Own” with the upfront...Torture in Castro’s Cuba
“I recall when they kept me in a punishment cell, naked, with several fractures on one leg which never received medical care; today, those bones remain jammed up together and displaced. One of the regular drills among the guards was to stand on the steel mesh ceiling and throw at my face buckets full of urine and excrement.” – Armando Valladares’, Chief of the US Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights’ Commission, 1988
Book Review of The Prime Movers: Traits of The Great Wealth Creators
Over the last 250 years, the quality of life throughout the world has been transformed. Life expectancy has increased from nineteen years in 1750 to seventy years today, and practically everyone today lives better than a king in the 1700s. There has been more progress...Abolish Antitrust!
Good afternoon.I want to address four issues regarding anti-trust as they apply to the Microsoft case.Anti-trust Paralyzes the Thinking ProcessIn my research on the traits of great wealth creators (The Prime Movers: Traits of The Great Wealth Creators), I identified...Clinton Tries To Take Credit For Celera’s Achievement
Celera’s achievement rendered the government-funded Human Genome Project obsolete. It demonstrated that the public endeavor was a waste of time, money and resources. Yet, Clinton managed not only to save face, but also to share in Celera’s glory and advance the idea that greater government involvement in science is a good thing.