POLITICS

Alan Keyes, a candidate for the Republican 2000 presidential nomination, argues that the income tax is a slave tax and that Americans are slaves. He is correct. A slave is a person who does not own his own labor. After tax, successful Americans retain no more of the...

If you want to understand what is happening to Microsoft, read “Atlas Shrugged,” Ayn Rand’s classic story of the bureaucratic assault on the entrepreneurial spirit. In “Atlas Shrugged,” Hank Rearden, inventor of the fabulous Rearden...

Where are the flying cars? It is now 2001, and for those of us who insist on technicalities, this is the real, official beginning of the 21st century. So I want to know: Where is the future predicted for us by science fiction writers — you know, the future of...

More countries expanded economic freedom during the past year than curtailed it, The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal report in their annual “Index of Economic Freedom.” The survey showed 70 of the 155 countries rated granted their citizens...

On November 29, the United States and Chile came one step closer to achieving (in the words of President Bill Clinton) a “mutual commitment to advancing free and open trade and investment in the Americas.” Chile received this long-sought invitation to...

Basically, the tax system is designed to punish success. Work harder than the next guy, innovate, invest wisely, or get lucky–and the government will put the squeeze on you. Almost every argument made by liberals against tax cuts, it seems, comes down to a...

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a Paris-based institution with 29 member nations from the industrialized world, has launched a project seeking the elimination of “harmful tax competition.” In a report titled...

A cloud is hanging over this year’s Christmas season: the cloud of recession. You can see it in weak Christmas shopping sales and the desperate deals being offered by car makers. You can see it in the words of a shopper interviewed on television, who explained...

Imagine a world in which you’re forbidden to spend your own money to obtain medical care. Imagine that, regardless of your personal needs, you’re forced to rely on the government for health care, no matter how long it takes or how substandard it may be. A...

So who are these cads, this “wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers,” anyway? We heard a lot about this select group of villains in the presidential debates. Indeed, certain politicians almost seem to hold their noses, their voices dripping with disdain, as...

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, has led his country to the brink of implosion. His policies flout freedom and the rule of law and have ruined a once-healthy economy. Washington should urge...

Democrats have no constituency more loyal than black Americans. Much of that loyalty is delivered by black elected officials, civil-rights organizations and church leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. During the last election, these people did a...

President-elect George W. Bush is being advised by his political foes to abandon tax cuts. This step, they tell him, is the only way to heal the wounds caused by weeks of legal wrangling and partisan rhetoric. Yet abandoning tax cuts would be a big mistake, both...

“Buy the stock – it’s a good company.” This oft-repeated platitude is one that’s very popular on Wall Street, but it’s also one that I’m sick of hearing it because it’s not necessarily a useful guide for investors. A...

It used to be a raging debate in psychology: Are human beings primarily determined by physiology — or by other factors such as environment, family, thinking habits, etc.? Today, such a debate is nearly non-existent. Instead of looking for the role of...

This past week, Russian president Vladimir Putin visited communist Cuba on a diplomatic visit to that tropical paradise, that CNN commentators love to gush about, Cuba. [Now if only CNN would only move there permanently!] Many have questioned the purpose of the trip,...

While the election crisis was still upon us, I hated it as much as anyone else. As a columnist, I probably hated it more. How do you write about politics when the news reverses direction every two hours? But now that it’s all over, I’m getting downright...

Given the inevitable liberal attack on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that settles the election contest, it is important to be clear about what the Supreme Court did and who is ultimately responsible for its ruling. There are many pernicious lines of attack,...

Q: There’s a new corporate term in use lately — “emotional intelligence.” People are even being tested for their “emotional intelligence” levels. Is there any value in this? A: The very concept of “emotional...