by Walter Williams | Jun 2, 2003 | POLITICS
How many times have we applauded those who “made a difference in the lives of others” and been admonished to do the same? On the face of it, that has to be one of the more mindless generalities of our modern era. After all, didn’t Hitler, Stalin, Pol...
by Bruce Bartlett | Jun 1, 2003 | POLITICS
In the early hours of May 23, the House and Senate both approved H.R. 2, a bill that reduces tax rates on wages, dividends and capital gains, among other things. The following day, before the legislation had even been signed into law, The New York Times pronounced it...
by Thomas Sowell | May 30, 2003 | POLITICS
The idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is so appalling that it is hard to understand how it has as much support as it does. Among politicians, it is much easier to understand why Democrats support the idea than why so many Republicans go along. Except for...
by Keith Lockitch | May 30, 2003 | POLITICS
Initial reports of the looting of the Iraqi National Museum sparked a frenzy of outrage. Denied their desert quagmire, their civilian massacres, their oil-fire eco-disaster, and their inflamed “Arab street,” leftists all but leaped at the opportunity to...
by S.M. Oliva | May 29, 2003 | POLITICS
Rarely do you see a Supreme Court opinion with as little intellectual merit as Tuesday’s judgment in Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs. Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s reputation as a conservative, “states’ rights” judge...
by Tom DeWeese | May 29, 2003 | POLITICS
As if the government isn’t trying to control every aspect of your life, it has now launched a program to determine what and how much you eat. In her book, “Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans”, author...
by Thomas Sowell | May 29, 2003 | POLITICS
Old-time civil rights activist Bayard Rustin once said that blacks should issue a blanket amnesty to whites — just so that guilty whites would not keep on doing counterproductive things in order to make up for the past. The proposal that Congress create a slave...
by Bruce Bartlett | May 28, 2003 | POLITICS
The Jayson Blair scandal at The New York Times has engendered more commentary than any similar press scandal I can recall. Although in substance, the scandals involving Janet Cooke at The Washington Post, Stephen Glass and Ruth Shalit at The New Republic, and Mike...
by Walter Williams | May 28, 2003 | POLITICS
Dr. Mike S. Adams, an associate professor of criminal justice at University of North Carolina’s Wilmington campus, has given me an excellent idea for grading students, which appeared in his commentary in the web-based Agape Press newswire. For 35 years,...
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