by Conrad F. Meier | Jul 21, 2003 | POLITICS
The nature of a lie is such that if you repeat it often enough it takes on a life of its own, always at the expense of truth. While some lies–“your hair looks great”–are harmless enough, and lies like “I never had sex with that...
by Wayne Dunn | Jul 21, 2003 | Economics, POLITICS
Who’d have thought an inanimate object could teach a lesson in economics? Yet that’s exactly what a first-aid kit did. Several kits, actually, wall-mounted cabinets in the buildings where I work. Now we’re not just talking Band-Aids and iodine here....
by Richard M Salsman | Jul 20, 2003 | POLITICS
We’ve all heard about the alleged “robber barons.” For decades the world’s successful wealth creators – from Rockefeller to Gates – have been brushed with that smear. But Dr. Locke shows that the smear just can’t stick. The...
by Wayne Dunn | Jul 20, 2003 | Religion, Women's Rights
American women were baptized into the workforce decades ago. Today they’re running their own businesses, launching their own product lines, are managers, directors, VPs and CEOs. That’s why the recent Southern Baptist Convention’s in-fight over the...
by James Glassman | Jul 19, 2003 | POLITICS
Is high tech really back, or are we headed for Dubble Bubble? Whitney Tilson, venerable and circumspect columnist for the Motley Fool, has no doubts: “Times like these make me sigh, hold my head in my hands, and groan, ‘How is it possible that, in less...
by Daniel Pipes | Jul 19, 2003 | Middle East & Israel, WORLD
Middle Easterners were widely puzzled in early 1994 when some leading American politicians, including Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), forwarded more assertive, tougher positions vis-à-vis the Palestinians than did the government of Israel....
by Michelle Malkin | Jul 18, 2003 | POLITICS, Terrorism
The New York Times — unrelenting champion of the underprivileged, mighty battler against all corporate evils, and vehement opponent of Republican tax cuts for the “rich and powerful” — lives by a far more self-serving motto: All the corporate...
by Bruce Bartlett | Jul 18, 2003 | Money & Banking, POLITICS
Last week’s announcement that the federal budget deficit will reach $455 billion this fiscal year (which ends on Sept. 30) brought predictable denunciations from the Democratic side of the aisle. It’s not so much that Democrats care about deficits —...
by Peter Schwartz | Jul 18, 2003 | Crime, Foreign Policy, POLITICS
Those who claim that the United States has a moral obligation to send troops on a “humanitarian” mission to Liberia have it exactly backward: our government has a moral obligation *not* to send its forces into areas that pose no threats to America’s...
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