by Thomas Sowell | May 24, 2003 | POLITICS
A decade ago — in May 1993 — this column first mentioned unusually bright little children who are also unusually late in beginning to speak. Unknown to me at the time, this set in motion some remarkable developments which have not yet run their course.... by Edwin Feulner | May 24, 2003 | POLITICS
It’s not often one can say France’s tax policy make more sense than ours.After all, in 2000, the average Frenchman paid 54 percent of his income in state and federal taxes, while the average American paid 42 percent. That, of course, is one reason why our... by Bruce Bartlett | May 23, 2003 | POLITICS
It is often said that the legislation process is like watching sausage being made: disgusting. What is left off this analogy, however, is that sausage can be very tasty. We have just seen a good example of tasty sausage being made in the tax area. Although the process... by Thomas Sowell | May 23, 2003 | POLITICS
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. That was certainly true of a recent photo of a little 7-year-old boy holding a sign demanding more money for the schools and holding his fist in the air. He was part of a demonstration organized by his teachers, and... by Sonia Arrison | May 23, 2003 | POLITICS
In a recent column, Judith Martin, otherwise known as “Miss Manners,” pondered “why a society composed of people angling to get on television to confess their disappointments or, now that we have reality television, demonstrate their shortcomings,... by Alex Kozinski | May 22, 2003 | POLITICS
Last December, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s ban on assault weapons. Writing for the Court, Judge Stephen Reinhardt held that the Second Amendment only protected the state’s... by Thomas Sowell | May 22, 2003 | POLITICS
The term “useful idiots” has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen’s new book “Useful... by Don Luskin | May 22, 2003 | POLITICS
President Bush’s proposal to eliminate the double taxation on dividends was simple, moral, and innocent — a lot like Jefferson Smith, the James Stewart character in Frank Capra’s classic film, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. And just like Smith,... by Bruce Bartlett | May 21, 2003 | POLITICS
The White House won a hollow victory in the Senate last week on its tax bill. The bill will do almost nothing for growth and could even be counterproductive, owing to harmful tax increases included in the package. In defense of the Senate, it was in an untenable...
