POLITICS

Last December, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld California’s ban on assault weapons. Writing for the Court, Judge Stephen Reinhardt held that the Second Amendment only protected the state’s...

The White House won a hollow victory in the Senate last week on its tax bill. The bill will do almost nothing for growth and could even be counterproductive, owing to harmful tax increases included in the package. In defense of the Senate, it was in an untenable...

President Bush has declared the end of “major combat operations” in Iraq, but he has not declared victory in the War on Terrorism–and that’s a good thing, because the largest and most important battle in that war still remains to be fought. The...

The following is an excerpt of an address given by CAC Chairman Nicholas Provenzo to the Colorado Medical Society on May 4, 2003. Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning. I thank you for your kind attention this morning and I thank the staff and directors of the Colorado...

Maytag recently announced that it’s moving its Galesburg, Ill., production facility to Mexico. A group called Americans Against NAFTA has protested Maytag’s decision. Spokesman Russ Anderson said, “We want to spread the word of what we believe Maytag...

Once again, someone has managed to blame a few pounds of metal for the demonstrated ineptitude of a few pounds of gray matter. Last week, jurors in a California civil court ruled that gun manufacturer Bryco/Jennings must pay over $50 million to a 16-year-old who...

Most Americans think slavery ended with the 13th Amendment in 1865. It did, in the United States. But it is alive and well today in the Sudan and Mauritania. In these African countries, blacks suffer at the hands of Arabs, who ransack villages, kill the men and sell...

Two reporters relay this anecdote from Thailand: One of the half-dozen men and women sitting on a bench eating was a sinewy, bare-chested laborer in his late 30’s named Mongkol Latlakorn. It was a hot, lazy day, and so we started chatting idly about the food...

When President Bill Clinton deployed American troops in places like Bosnia and Haiti, he was criticized for turning foreign policy into “social work” (as Michael Mandelbaum pungently put it). By what authority, many asked in the 1990s, did the president...

Sometimes a single incident can reveal the widespread rot that has affected the nation’s school systems as they strive to indoctrinate the children entrusted to their care while neglecting to teach them the Three R’s. In Inverness, Florida, a 12-year-old...

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,...

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....

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...

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,...