by Robert Garmong | Nov 23, 2003 | Healthcare, POLITICS
After battling for months over two allegedly opposite versions of the bill to add prescription drug coverage to Medicare, members of the House and Senate announced Saturday they had reached an agreement. House Republicans managed to include in the bill a provision to...
by Patriots for the Defense of America | Nov 23, 2003 | POLITICS
Even though the current war has been deemed a “war on terrorism,” this is a misnomer. One does not go to war with a method of fighting, one goes to war with an enemy. And for this reason the current war is far wider than even a war against militant Islam....
by Nicholas Provenzo | Nov 22, 2003 | Military, POLITICS
In his Op-Ed column, “To arms,” Tony Blankley argues that the youth of America needs to be sacrificed for the greater good and hints that we may need the draft to do it. Referencing the last living veterans of this generation, Blankly writes: Just as the...
by Scott Holleran | Nov 22, 2003 | Healthcare
Adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, as Congress is poised to do, is merely more socialism — it will neither help seniors nor is its passage likely to gain their votes.
by Patriots for the Defense of America | Nov 22, 2003 | POLITICS
In his first State of the Union address after September 11th, 2001, President Bush alerted the world to the existence of an “axis of evil,” arrayed against the United States and its allies, consisting of three nations: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Since...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Nov 21, 2003 | Healthcare
The Medicare II bill (my name for it) that Congress is about to pass is an unmitigated disaster. The bill contains provisions for the largest expansion of socialized health care in this nation’s history. It essentially nationalizes prescription drugs for the...
by Bruce Bartlett | Nov 21, 2003 | Free Trade, Protectionism & Tariffs, POLITICS
On Nov. 18, the Bush administration announced a decision to impose new trade restrictions on imports of some Chinese textiles. Although rationalized as a means of saving American manufacturing jobs, no trade expert thinks it will have more than a trivial effect in...
by Larry Elder | Nov 21, 2003 | POLITICS
A “religion of peace,” says President Bush about Islam. But investigative journalist Robert Spencer, in his new book “Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West,” argues that what we call “Islamic...
by Patriots for the Defense of America | Nov 21, 2003 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
While the objectives of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan differed significantly, their shortcomings had much in common. Whereas the war with Iraq was justified by reference to evidence of a somewhat indeterminate WMD threat, the case for war in Afghanistan was based...