Jamie Olis’s Tragedy, And Ours

While Washington was preoccupied with the melodrama of Richard Clarke, I was moved by a more obscure event in Houston that could have greater significance. Earlier this month, a 38-year-old Korean immigrant named Jamie Olis, with a wife and a six-month-old daughter,...

The Waffling, Wobbling Bushes

Big-spending President Bush is at it again. His latest bright idea is to spend billions of tax dollars on job training programs. Democrats rage because this is their turf. Bush seeks to out-bid them. Lost in all this silliness are the important questions: What...

Brains and Things

One of my heroes is the late Julian Simon, the University of Maryland economist who challenged the conventional wisdom that the world was getting overpopulated and would soon run out of food and other critical resources. The best evidence of increasing demand and...

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