by Walter Williams | May 19, 2002 | POLITICS
The Enron case made headlines because fraud and deception of such magnitude is fairly unusual in the corporate world. Washington fraud and deception of a much greater magnitude doesn’t make the headlines because fraud and deception in government is standard...
by George F Smith | May 18, 2002 | Antitrust & Monopolies, POLITICS
Most politicians and economists do not recognize capitalism’s crucial characteristic. Given the state of the world today it’s easy to see why. In his widely acclaimed speech of September 20, 2001, President Bush said, “Terrorists attacked a symbol of...
by Jeff Jacoby | May 18, 2002 | POLITICS
Fidel Castro loathes anyone who champions freedom and democracy, but for Vladimiro Roca, who was freed this week after nearly five years in prison, he harbors a particular hatred. Roca is a scion of Cuba’s communist elite. His father was Blas Roca, a founding...
by Ayn Rand Bookstore | May 18, 2002 | Books, SCIENCE
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by Don Luskin | May 17, 2002 | POLITICS
The best reasons for the current era of high equity valuations aren’t very good. Just a few weeks before the great stock market crash of 1929, America’s first celebrity economist, Irving Fisher, made one of history’s worst market calls when he said,...
by Daniel J Mitchell | May 17, 2002 | POLITICS, United Nations
Eleven years ago, the Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship, an “evil empire,” in the words of President Reagan. But today, the Cold War is a fading memory, and the nation that used to represent international socialism has junked its...
by Scott Holleran | May 17, 2002 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
Two major stories emerged last week regarding Cuba; one story you probably know — Jimmy Carter was in Cuba — and the other you probably do not. The contrast represents the complete inversion of what really matters. An American president in Cuba, current or...
by Ken Adelman | May 17, 2002 | Environment
When former Vice President Al Gore takes pen to paper – or computer to email – he seemingly can’t avoid engaging in hyperbole. Thus, it is no surprise the man who wrote that we live in “a dysfunctional civilization” in Earth in the...
by Larry Elder | May 16, 2002 | POLITICS
The Associated Press ran a rare article explaining exactly who pays the federal income taxes. They state that the top 5 percent of income earners pay more than 55 percent of the total federal income taxes. (To be eligible for the top 5 percent, one must have an annual...