by James Glassman | Apr 15, 2003 | POLITICS
Three months ago, President Bush proposed reviving the economy with a package that would cut the tax bills of 92 million Americans. The president has had other things on his mind since then, and the opposition of only a few Senators pared the package back in the... by Larry Solomon | Apr 15, 2003 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
The shelves in the neighbourhood pharmacy, like those in the other neighbourhood pharmacies I had seen in Havana, were half empty and full of dust, the small selection of medicines on display arranged in lonely rows of old-fashioned little bottles. Customers were as... by S.M. Oliva | Apr 14, 2003 | Antitrust & Monopolies
Last Friday, Mountain Health Care of Asheville, North Carolina, will close its offices for good. The 11 year-old company died not from bankruptcy or poor business judgment, but of antitrust poisoning. More accurately, the United States Department of Justice executed... by Ralph R. Reiland | Apr 13, 2003 | POLITICS
It’s hard to come off as more bizarre than Madonna (she works at it) but that’s how Mohammed Saeed Sahaf, Iraq’s information minister, looks on TV as I’m writing this. With U.S. jets controlling the air over his head and American soldiers just... by Jeff Jacoby | Apr 13, 2003 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
One of the first people I met during a week’s stay in Havana last year was the economist Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a once-ardent communist who had turned against Fidel Castro’s dictatorial system. For daring to criticize Cuba’s disastrous policies, Chepe... by Dr Michael Hurd | Apr 13, 2003 | Middle East & Israel, WORLD
That’s all Saddam Hussein was: the moral and political equivalent of a cockroach. His metaphysical importance was never any more than that, and neither — we now realize — was his military strength. Years of hand wringing and appeasement by... by Don Luskin | Apr 12, 2003 | POLITICS
Last week I sat across a table from President George W. Bush in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. He told me and a dozen fellow economists that “the American economy is a theatre in the war on terrorism.” With steely conviction he told us that he... by James Glassman | Apr 12, 2003 | POLITICS
I was shocked and disgusted by an op-ed piece I read today in the New York Times. No, it wasn’t by Paul Krugman. It was far more serious: Eason Jordan, chief news executive at CNN, revealing what the headline called “The News We Kept to Ourselves.”... by Thomas Sowell | Apr 11, 2003 | POLITICS
Those of us whose pessimism about our country’s social degeneration sometimes borders on despair have been given a reality check by the dedication, discipline, and decency of our troops in Iraq, as well as by the advanced technology of the military equipment...
