Tax Credits for Health Care Coverage

It appears high on nearly every wish list President Bush has mentioned for the next Congress: health-care legislation. Why? Because lawmakers can’t wait much longer before they do something about the growing number of Americans who lack health insurance. The...

Cramer vs. Cramer: Another Day, Another Fantasy

If you’re a financial media pundit, you live every day with a fundamental challenge with respect to accountability and intellectual honesty. As your forecasts, opinions and views accumulate over the years, how do you reconcile what you are saying today (or...

The Case for Invading Iraq

With each passing day the United States comes ever closer to launching a new war against Iraq. And yet, before it has even begun, thousands of people are already marching in the streets demanding that our government not take any forceful action against Saddam’s...

Sowell’s Christmas Book Recommendations

Some years, it is hard to find enough good new books to recommend to buy as Christmas presents, so I have had to recommend old favorites like The Federalist Papers or recommend gift subscriptions to magazines like The Economist. This year, however, there have been so...

Hope for Iran

Americans who care about Iran had something to be grateful for this Thanksgiving: The State Department finally came out foursquare in support of the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have been demonstrating for an end to their country’s ruthless Islamic...

Senator Trent Lott’s Tin Ear and Loose Tongue

Anybody can put his foot in his mouth but making it a habit is too much, especially when you are in a position where your ill-considered words can become a permanent albatross around the necks of other people whom you are leading. That is the situation now, in the...

The Implosion of the Republican Party

It’s been nearly a week since Trent Lott got all misty for Strom Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist campaign for president, and yet not one of his peers in the Senate has called for his ouster as Majority leader. Not one Senator has demanded the Senate censure...