On March 25, the Congressional Budget Office released an important study of President Bush's budget proposal. What was novel about this study is that the CBO attempted to calculate the impact of the proposal on the economy as a whole. Normally, it assumes that even...
POLITICS
The Grand Fraud: “Disparate Impact” Statistics, Big Business, and Affirmative Action
Someone once said of Lillian Hellman that every word she uttered was a lie, including "and" and "the." Many defenders of affirmative action deserve a Lillian Hellman award. Not only is much of what they say contradicted by readily available facts, much of what they...
The Sin of ‘Sin Taxes’
Like most states, Georgia is facing a severe budget crisis. Estimates place Georgia's deficit for the next fiscal year at between $800 million and $1 billion. To help remedy the situation, Governor Sonny Perdue is trying the oldest political trick in the book--he...
U.S.-Russian Relations Threatened By Iraq Arms Sales
The Bush Administration has accused Moscow of selling sensitive military equipment to Saddam Hussein in violation of U.N. Security Council sanctions. During a March 24th telephone conversation, President George W. Bush discussed the sales of night vision goggles,...
Will Saddam Use Chemical Weapons?
There is little debate as to whether Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons. This was underscored when coalition forces recently discovered 3,000 chemical suits in a Nasiriyah hospital. The real question is whether or not Saddam will use these weapons of horror. As...
America: Ruled by Scoundrels
The March 10 issue of Human Events carried a special report on the 10 most outrageous government programs. The Legal Services Corp. headed the list, followed closely by the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act and the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. Rounding out the...
The Grand Fraud: Affirmative Action for Women
Fraud is as pervasive in arguments for affirmative action for women as in arguments for affirmative action for blacks. In fact, a whole fraudulent history has been concocted to explain the changing economic position of women over the years. In the feminist movement's...
Against the Moral Authority of the United Nations
Thomas Friedman writes to Andrew Sullivan: Why is it that liberals, such as myself, who were ready to support the war, so desperately wanted U.N. approval for it? It was for a couple of reasons--one that is already apparent and one that will become more apparent....
War: Good for Iraq?
Every day, Americans watch their televisions in awe, as U.S. cruise missiles and precision bombs rain down on Baghdad. There is also much destruction going on elsewhere in Iraq. It may seem absurd, therefore, to suggest that the war in Iraq could somehow end up being...
The Grand Fraud: Affirmative Action for Blacks
No issue has been more saturated with dishonesty than the issue of racial quotas and preferences, which is now being examined by the Supreme Court of the United States. Many defenders of affirmative action are not even honest enough to admit that they are talking...
The Moral Gulf Between America and Saddam’s Iraq
The campaign to liberate Iraq is going well, though you might not know it from the shock and awe of the media, which apparently discovered only this week that war -- even for a winning army -- is hell. As is the case in nearly every war, brave soldiers have been...
“I Was Wrong.”
How do you admit you were wrong? What do you do when you realize those you were defending in fact did not want your defense and wanted something completely different from you and from the world? This is my story. It will probably upset everybody - those with whom I...
Dismantling North Korea’s Nukes
The Bush Administration is right to demand the dismantling, not just the suspension, of North Korea’s nuclear program.
Smithsonian Denies Slavery in Africa Was “Dehumanizing”
The Smithsonian's African American history museum in Washington, D.C., states that while instances of slavery can be found throughout human history, the practice of slavery did not become "dehumanizing" until white Europeans came along and took slaves to the Americas....
Daniel Pipes Visits Hamilton College
On January 27, 2003 the Hamilton College Objectivist Club, Chaplaincy, Hillel, Dean of Students' Office, Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, and government department brought Dr. Daniel Pipes to Hamilton College. Dr. Pipes began his visit with a Q&A seminar on the...
Victims of The Phillips Curve
Let's talk about the economics of mass destruction -- the single most dangerous idea in economic policy... the Phillips Curve. Even if you don't know it by that name, you've been its victim. The Phillips Curve is the formal construct representing the idea that full...
Academy Award Winner Michael Moore’s Fictitious Life
He calls Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft the "real axis of evil." He blamed 9-11 attacks on too many White people and not enough Black men on the planes. And in his Oscar Night diatribe, film-maker Michael Moore used his win of an Academy Award to rant against a...
Let the Steel Tariffs Die
A little over a year ago, on March 5, 2002, President Bush made a serious mistake by imposing tariffs on imported steel. At the time, there were many, including myself, who said that the negative impact of this action on steel consumers would be much greater than any...
Random Thoughts for March 2003
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Never before in history has the word "unilateral" been thrown around so gratuitously when the issue was war. Only in recent years has there been any question that a sovereign nation takes the solemn step of going to war...
The Evasion of the Century
The most common reason I hear people opposing war against Iraq -- indeed, any war initiated in defense of the United States -- is opposition to "violence on principle." This is what I hear from young people particularly often: "We have no right to use our military...
The Old Europe’s Paper Armies
When it came down to it, two of America's closest Cold War allies -- France and Germany -- were unwilling to bear the responsibility of major powers when it came to Iraq. They weren't there when we -- and the world -- needed them. Instead, they carped, complained,...
Untrustworthy Trust Accounts
Most Americans have never heard the acronym "IOLTA," but if you've ever been involved in a real estate closing or had an attorney hold your funds in escrow, than you've probably been affected by IOLTA. What does that mean? It means the government is taking money from...
Smashing Windows for Peace
The attack was well-choreographed. Moving in successive waves, they executed a perfect assault. Some moved to cut off their enemies' supply lines, seizing control of crucial bridges and roadways, while others worked to surround and besiege key command and control...
Thoughts on Tax Cuts and Supply Side Economics
The Senate's surprise vote Tuesday to reduce the value of President Bush's proposed tax-cuts by more than half has been played in the press as a major setback for the President's agenda. But the way I see it, it's actually great news: a tax-cut that was assumed to...
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