Sins of Businessmen, Crimes of Politicians
Acts of dishonesty and fraud have no more essential connection to business activity than they do to the practice of medicine or the performance of music or to any of the arts or sciences.
Oslo Equals Mud: A Historic Failure for Peace
Ten years later, it is embarrassing to recall the elation and soaring expectations. President Bill Clinton lauded it as a “great occasion of history.” Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruminated on how “the impossible is within our reach.”...The IRS Versus The Bill Of Rights
To get an idea of what it’s like to tangle with the IRS, imagine having to fight Mike Tyson — with both hands tied behind your back. The IRS is the most feared government agency, and with good reason. Americans who run afoul of this bureaucratic behemoth...The Poverty of Nations: International Monetary Fund Socialism Run Amok
In most cases, though, the assistance hasn’t helped. Why? Largely because recipients have failed to address the main causes of their economic ruin — corruption, repressed economies, weak judicial systems and excessive state ownership of key enterprises.
What Are We Fighting For?
Our lack of moral clarity is keeping us from winning the war.
The Voucher Debate
In Washington D.C. right now, there’s a huge debate going on about school vouchers. Here’s the debate boiled down to its bare — and honest — essentials. The opponents of school vouchers resent the fact that some kids will end up in superior...Trading Insults: The WTO’s Cancun Free For All
Don’t give a starving man a fish, give him a fishing rod. That used to be the mantra in foreign aid circles. The message that came out of the collapsed World Trade Organization negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, last week took the metaphor one step further;...The War On America Did Not Begin On Sept 11th
The War we are in didn’t begin on Sept. 11, 2001. It began 22 years earlier. On Nov. 4, 1979, Islamist radicals stormed the US embassy in Tehran and, with the support of the Ayatollah Khomeini, proceeded to hold 52 Americans hostage for the next 15 months. The...Why and How to Remember September 11
There is good reason to remember the attacks of Black Tuesday, to give that day a solemn acknowledgment.
