by Robert W Tracinski | May 12, 2004 | Religion
The enemy has problems of his own. I keep reminding my readers of this fact, because it is a crucially important context for today’s events. It is easy to become discouraged as we watch our leaders dither over Iraq, and as we watch the press and the political...
by Thomas Sowell | May 11, 2004 | Middle East & Israel, Military, POLITICS
The American Civil War was not about conditions in Andersonville prison and the war in Iraq is not about conditions in Abu Ghraib prison. Terrible things happened in both military prisons but that was a small part of both these wars. When our troops are putting their...
by Ronald D. Utt | May 10, 2004 | POLITICS
During the recent debate on legislation to reauthorize the federal highway system, many supporters of the program claimed that it would create 2 million jobs. But as decades of research demonstrate, such claims are questionable given the mixed findings of the many...
by Edwin Feulner | May 10, 2004 | POLITICS
The roar of good economic news is getting louder. Our economy expanded 4.2 percent in the first quarter of the year. That follows 4.1 percent growth in the fourth quarter, and 8.2 percent growth in the quarter before that. Over the last three months alone, our economy...
by Don Luskin | May 9, 2004 | POLITICS
Speech by Donald L. Luskin to the Corporate Finance Council of San Diego.Tonight I’m going to be talking about the controversy over “offshore outsourcing” in the context of a book I’m writing. My book is about the intersection of the science of...
by Thomas Sowell | May 9, 2004 | POLITICS
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Australian economist Wolfgang Kasper has figured out the day on which the average citizen has earned money enough to pay his taxes, so that he can then begin earning money for himself instead of for the government. For Singapore,...
by Don Luskin | May 9, 2004 | POLITICS
Speech by Donald L. Luskin to the Corporate Finance Council of San Diego.Tonight I’m going to be talking about the controversy over “offshore outsourcing” in the context of a book I’m writing. My book is about the intersection of the science of...
by David Holcberg | May 7, 2004 | Money & Banking, POLITICS
The re-election of Sudan to the U.N. Human Rights Commission–chaired by terrorist-sponsoring Libya in 2003–demonstrates once again the total moral bankruptcy of the United Nations. The list of atrocities and violations of human rights in Sudan is endless....
by Thomas Sowell | May 6, 2004 | POLITICS
Those who imagine that collective decision-making by government officials is better than individual decision-making in a market economy should have been present at a recent meeting of the Planning Commission for the city of San Mateo, California. A man who has been...
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