by Alan Luber | Sep 29, 2001 | POLITICS
There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.” I urge all of you to be paranoid to the nth degree with respect to taking precautions to protect your... by Don Luskin | Sep 28, 2001 | POLITICS
A report Tuesday from Steve Galbraith, strategist at Morgan Stanley, slashed his 2001 earnings forecast for the S&P 500 from $51 to $46 — about a 10% cut. But from the 1092 S&P close the day before the September 11 terrorist attack through the 1003 close... by Larry Elder | Sep 28, 2001 | POLITICS
“Well, I just think that you’re painting a horrible picture of what we’re about,” said Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in response to the question I asked last week. My question that provoked such an indignant response? “Senator,”... by Thomas Sowell | Sep 27, 2001 | Economics, POLITICS
Among the suggestions being made for getting the American economy moving up again is a reduction in the capital gains tax. But any such suggestion makes people on the left go ballistic. It is “trickle down” economics, they cry. Liberals claim that those... by George F Smith | Sep 27, 2001 | POLITICS
Crisis is good for statist-leaning governments such as ours because it affords them the opportunity to package new oppressions under the guise of needed security. Lately, we’ve been treated to the idea of a national ID card so our police can tell good guys from... by Walter Williams | Sep 26, 2001 | POLITICS, Regulation
Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, Czar Norman, has ordered new, ill-thought out, oppressive airline regulations in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Among them: a ban on knives — plastic or steel — anywhere in the airport and on airplanes,... by Tara Smith | Sep 25, 2001 | Military, POLITICS
The case for large-scale, decisive US military action in response to the Sept. 11th massacres is two-fold: justice and self-defense. Justice consists of treating people as they deserve. It is exercised by rewarding and encouraging the good in others and by punishing... by Alan Luber | Sep 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Remember the movie Die Hard? At one point in the movie, Takagi (James Shigeta) says to Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), “You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?” To which Gruber replies in one of the more memorable quotes from the movie, “Who... by Robert W Tracinski | Sep 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Now that we have officially more or less committed ourselves to war, many will now object that this mission poses too many strategic pitfalls — that the Middle East is a vast quagmire, that the enemy is too elusive, that this will be “another...
