by Bruce Bartlett | Jun 7, 2003 | POLITICS
On May 29, London’s Financial Times reported some startling news about the U.S. national debt. Instead of being about $3.5 trillion, as commonly understood, it was actually $44 trillion, according to a suppressed Treasury Department report by economists Kent...
by Daniel Pipes | Jun 6, 2003 | POLITICS
A day after suicide bombers killed 29 people in Morocco in mid-May, that country’s interior minister noted that the five nearly simultaneous attacks “bear the hallmarks of international terrorism.” More strongly, the Moroccan justice minister...
by Bruce Bartlett | Jun 6, 2003 | POLITICS
This Friday, June 6, marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most important political/economic events in American history: Proposition 13. This initiative, which was approved by the voters of California on this date in 1978, sparked a “tax revolt” that...
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 5, 2003 | POLITICS
As the Supreme Court of the United States wrestles with the issue of affirmative action as it exists in college admissions at the University of Michigan, the justices are taking on an issue that has been wrestled with in many contexts by courts in India for far longer...
by Robert W Tracinski | Jun 5, 2003 | POLITICS
After using America’s military to achieve a brilliant success in Iraq, President Bush is intent on using his new-found clout in the region to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict. But the means he has chosen is renewed negotiations and a new diplomatic “road...
by Jeff Jacoby | Jun 4, 2003 | POLITICS
A hole was torn last month in the international “road map” to Israeli-Palestinian peace when Mahmoud Abbas insisted that Yasser Arafat remains the unchallenged ruler of the Palestinian Authority. “Arafat is at the top,” Abbas, the PA’s...
by Wayne Dunn | Jun 4, 2003 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
Pundits say creating a free Iraq means “democratically” divvying up political power among its various religious and ethnic factions. “[We need] to make sure all the different groups get a fair shot,” said Senator Trent Lott recently. That just...
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 4, 2003 | POLITICS
The June issue of National Geographic contains one of the rare honest looks at India. The article “India’s Untouchables” gives a shocking picture of some of the most persecuted people on earth. For far too long, India has been one of a number of...
by Robert Garmong | Jun 3, 2003 | Free Speech, POLITICS
For a century after the Civil War, blacks in America’s South were subjected to shameful acts of oppression and violence. Deprived of voice and vote, they had no choice but to suffer mutely as they were scurrilously attacked. Two California-based lawsuits...
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