by Ralph R. Reiland | Jun 19, 2002 | POLITICS, Terrorism
Like three blind mice, Dick Gephardt, Hillary Clinton and James Carville are running around saying they want their eyes opened about what’s going on in this country about terrorism. House Minority Leader Gebhardt wants an investigation into “what the White...
by Sonia Arrison | Jun 19, 2002 | POLITICS
California’s Governor Gray Davis is in hot water over his acceptance of $25,000 from Oracle Corporation following the state’s no-bid $95 million dollar e-government deal with the company. And while the governor probably wishes he had never heard of...
by Don Luskin | Jun 18, 2002 | POLITICS
WorldCom has rallied as much as 53% in the two weeks since it was ignominiously ejected from the S&P 500 Index on May 14. Low-priced securities of distressed companies are often subject to such large moves in percentage terms. But WorldCom’s rally following...
by Daniel Pipes | Jun 18, 2002 | POLITICS, Terrorism
Each spring, the State Department issues “Patterns of Global Terrorism,” its major report on the problem it defines as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents,...
by Nicholas Provenzo | Jun 18, 2002 | POLITICS
Today, the Senate Committee on Finance will vote on a bill introduced by Sen, Charles Grassley of Iowa that would make it illegal for a US firms to re-incorporate overseas to avoid the tax bias against corporate overseas income. CMDC considers this and similar...
by Robert W Tracinski | Jun 17, 2002 | POLITICS
Today, more than a million people in Zimbabwe are starving, and up to three million face the imminent prospect of starvation. This has not yet excited much attention in the West. Zimbabwe, after all, is far away from the centers of American interest; all of our top...
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 17, 2002 | POLITICS
One of the many reasons why economists are unpopular is that they keep reminding people that things have costs, that there is no free lunch. People already know that — but they like to forget it when there is something they have their hearts set on. Economists...
by Alex Epstein | Jun 17, 2002 | POLITICS, Religion
Thanks to infighting in the Senate, it appears that voting on legislation that would destroy the lives of life-saving heroes will be delayed until next year. Americans cannot afford to leave the fate of these individuals to legislative chance, however; in the name of...
by Michelle Malkin | Jun 16, 2002 | POLITICS
Remember those public-service ads with the politically correct cast of actors staring into the camera and stating, “I am an American”? Something always bothered me about that campaign. It was the snarly attitude that many of the cast members had while...
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