by Don Luskin | May 6, 2003 | POLITICS
With today’s meeting of the FOMC not likely to generate a lot of surprises, let’s take a moment to look at a chart that offers a remarkable perspective on monetary history. One wants to be careful about taking this kind of analysis too literally, but it is...
by Walter Williams | May 6, 2003 | POLITICS
Imagine that you and I are in a rowboat. I commit the stupid act of shooting a hole in my end of the boat. Would it be intelligent for you to respond by shooting a hole in your end of the boat? Or, imagine I were a politician and told you that the Russian, Chinese,...
by Raul Damas | May 6, 2003 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
Around this time in 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell took it on the chin for opining, “Castro has done some good things for his people.” Last month Powell spoke about the Castro regime much more honestly, stating that the recent crackdown, sham trials...
by Carter Laren | May 6, 2003 | POLITICS
There are plenty of otherwise rational individuals in the world who avoid confrontation at all costs, as if getting labeled a “Capitalist” was somehow worse than actually being one. This article is dedicated to them. Sometimes, even I receive hate mail....
by Norbert Michel | May 5, 2003 | POLITICS
Can we afford a big tax cut right now? That’s what the arguments against the president’s $726 billion proposal boil down to, really. The fact that we’ve been at war, that the economy remains sluggish, that we’ve returned to deficit spending...
by Michael Giorgino | May 5, 2003 | Constitution, Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
As the statue of Saddam Hussein came crashing down, President Bush told the Iraqi people, “You deserve better than tyranny and corruption and torture chambers. You deserve to live as free people. And I assure every citizen of Iraq: your nation will soon be...
by Daniel J Mitchell | May 4, 2003 | POLITICS
Listening to Washington policy-makers haggle over the size of President Bush’s proposed tax cut — $350 billion over the next decade? $550 billion? $726 billion? — you would think nothing matters much beyond the price tag.Just as important, though, is...
by James Glassman | May 4, 2003 | POLITICS
The SEC is investigating possible abuses by the “specialist” firms that match buyers and sellers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The probe comes after revelations that the exchange itself had launched an investigation last year that is now...
by Tom DeWeese | May 3, 2003 | POLITICS, United Nations
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan continues to claim that only the UN can grant legitimacy to the United States’ successful war to topple Saddam Hussein. Rationally, that claim can be viewed as little more than a pathetic, baseless whine from those...
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