by Larry Elder | Mar 3, 2000 | POLITICS
Not Guilty. An Albany, N.Y. jury, consisting of four blacks, acquitted four white officers charged in the shooting death of West African Amadou Diallo. The undercover cops, looking for a rapist, cornered Diallo in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment. They ordered him... by Richard M Salsman | Mar 1, 2000 | POLITICS
When Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan speaks, markets listen. But Mr. Greenspan doesn’t create wealth, as E.F. Hutton did when he spoke. Mr. Greenspan’s speeches tend to destroy wealth. Last week, for example, Greenspan told Congress that... by Andrew Lewis | Feb 27, 2000 | POLITICS
Q. If you do not think libertarians are taking the correct action, may I suggest that those of us who are interested can join together to form a new country? A. This amounts to the idea that it is time to follow John Galt’s advice and strike from the world.... by George Reisman | Feb 26, 2000 | MARKETS
It May Be Bursting Now, and Faulty Economic Analysis Could Cost Investors Dearly
by Chris Wolski | Feb 26, 2000 | Racism
because they can do the work but because they ‘represent’ their racial group,” said Tracinski.
Tracinski noted that the consequence of the NAACP’s demands will be the unjust branding of every black writer, director, or actor subsequently hired as a quota-filler, and not as an individual who earned his job.
by Larry Elder | Feb 25, 2000 | POLITICS
O. J. Simpson, the only man in America more accessible to the press than John McCain, claims vindication. Simpson told Newsweek, “I feel vindicated. It is now loud and clear that these guys are capable of planting evidence and framing people. This is not... by Andrew Lewis | Feb 24, 2000 | POLITICS
Many people wonder about Alan Greenspan. As a student and associate of Ayn Rand in the 1960s, he wrote many articles on the virtue of capitalism, some appearing in her seminal work, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. An eloquent and ardent advocate of the free market, he... by Adam Mossoff | Feb 23, 2000 | Antitrust & Monopolies
The morality of altruism or self-sacrifice is often presented as a form of benevolence, as if it simply means being nice to other people. But the actual meaning of this philosophy is a hatred of success. Under this morality, anyone who achieves some extraordinary... by Adam Mossoff | Feb 22, 2000 | Antitrust & Monopolies
Judge Jackson’s visceral antagonism to business is also revealed by his condemnation of Microsoft for winning the browser battle against Netscape when “superior quality was not responsible for the dramatic rise [in] Internet Explorer’s usage...
