“Every vote must count!” has been the magic mantra of Florida judges who are trying to give Al Gore the electoral victory that the voters failed to give him. “Every guess must count!” is more like it, when courts start authorizing local...
POLITICS
The Relation Between Political Freedom and Economic Prosperity
The seventh edition of the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal’s Index of Economic Freedom was released this month and has confirmed, once again, that a positive relationship exists between economic freedom and living standards. The index, which is...
The Democrats “World of Non-A”
Two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle named one of the basic rules of reality: “A is A.” Reality is what it is. Contradictions cannot exist. This rule came to be known as the Law of Identity. Early in the 20th century, another philosopher...
Ploys ‘R Us: The Legal Store for Democrats Seeking To Steal Elections
The Florida Supreme Court has disgraced itself and undermined election laws, not just for this election in Florida but for future elections across the country. Any future losing candidate in a close election now knows that he need only create enough noise and...
In the Battle for the Presidency, Who Should Win: Man or Machine?
The only thing all Republicans and Democrats seem to agree with, is that the vote count should be “fair, accurate, and final.” But what do these concepts mean? Who should do the counting? And how should the counting be done? These concepts certainly seem...
How Justice Was Lost: A Criminal System Driven Not By Justice But By Conviction Rates
While Democrats conspire to steal the presidential election from Republicans, prosecutors, police and even judges conspire to steal justice from the American people. The public was shocked to learn that the highly respected FBI Crime Lab was manufacturing false...
A Double Standard at CNN
Pardon me for taking this opportunity to vent my anger.
The Democratic Nazi Party
Two weeks after Americans chose a new president on Nov. 7, the Democratic Party is still trying to change the vote count. Responding to this unusual situation, The Wall Street Journal called on Republicans not to allow Democrats to steal the election and with it the...
A Politically Correct Nobel Peace Prize for Murder
Stanley “Tookie” Williams was nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize this week. His supporters call him “wise,” “compassionate,” “well-read,” and “wide-eyed like a child.” So just what are Tookie...
Fair and Just: The Rule of Law Means Rules That Don’t Change to Suit the Democratic Party’s Whims
A caller to the Rush Limbaugh program noticed something that has escaped the notice of all the high-priced lawyers, all the learned judges and all the media pundits. She pointed out that when she sees a disputed ballot being held up during the Florida manual recount,...
Majority Rule Equal Tyranny
The controversy surrounding this year’s presidential election has led to calls to abandon the Constitution’s Article II provisions for the Electoral College to select presidents. Despite the fact the system has served us well for over 200 years, many...
Phony Issues in Florida: Gore Wants Every Vote To Count — If It Is Not For Bush
Incessant claims by Vice President Al Gore and his spokesmen that they want “every vote to count” is belied by everything the Gore camp has done in Florida. If the Democrats really wanted every vote to count, then they would have started a manual recount...
It Depends On What The Meaning Of The Word “Vote” Is
There used to be a half-joking, half-cynical saying on Capitol Hill: “reality is negotiable.” It stood for the idea that there is no fact that can’t be spun out of existence, and no number so absolute that you can’t doctor it off the books....
The Cult of Anti-Intellectualism Amongst Blacks
Here are just a few of the facts: One study asked middle-class black, white and Asian high school students what was the lowest grade their parents would tolerate their bringing home? Asian students replied A-minus. Blacks said their parents would accept grades lower...
The Seven Essential Questions of Bond Investing
As with any investment, successful investing in bonds requires following a simple routine or discipline. While experienced bond investors will follow this routine automatically, those who are newer to bonds should follow a checklist before committing themselves in...
Desperate and Ugly in Florida
The same ugly tactics that worked for the Clinton administration during impeachment are now being used by Al Gore in a last desperate effort to capture Florida and the presidency. These tactics include creating as much noise and chaos as possible in the media, with...
When Financial Statement Analysis Becomes More of an Art than a Science
Part of a global equity analyst’s job is to deconstruct the financial statements of companies from around the world. This can be a harrowing task, especially when one considers the multitude of differing accounting standards practiced in countries outside the...
A Vicious Double Standard in Journalism: Fog Horns of the Fourth Estate
TV journalism means never having to be truly sorry. You would think that after last Tuesday’s election coverage fiasco, the broadcast networks might show a smidgen of humility. Instead, NBC and MSNBC — which led the blow-dried lemmings in erroneously...
Children of the Damned: How We Are ‘Saving’ Our Children by Raising Them to Become Serfs
For almost a century the Soviet Union preached the doctrine of service to “the people.” Toil, sacrifice, and suffer, the Soviet propagandists told their subjects; it is all being done for the good of “the people.” As time went on, of course,...
Al Gore’s Coup D’Etat
Karl Marx said it best: “Audacity is 90 percent of the battle.” Lenin showed that he had learned this Marxist lesson well when he declared his tiny band “the majority” and seized power in Russia in the name of a non-existent proletariat. It is...
The Two Americas
The vote last Tuesday wasn’t even close. I know what you’re thinking. If you look at the national totals, the electoral college count, and the chaos in Florida, this election is probably the closest in history. But look at it again, state by state,...
International Markets Handle American Political Risk
There is an old saying that when the U.S. market sneezes, international markets catch a cold. This week, the election seems to have contributed to a big sneeze in the U.S. markets, but foreign markets handled it with little more than a sniffle. A number of foreign...
True Love Demands No Sacrifices
Never ask your spouse or partner to make a sacrifice for you. If you really love someone, then you don’t wish to control them. It’s not that you merely won’t ask them to do something they don’t want to do. We’re not just talking about...
Al Gore’s Legal Fishing Expedition: Who Cares About Election Fraud Now?
Faster than you can say Court TV, a high-priced flock of Democrat Party lawyers packed their polo shirts and jetted to Florida to investigate claims of election fraud. Al Gore’s presidential campaign is reportedly drumming up $3 million from lobbyists to pay for...
“Blood In The Streets” in Asia — Again.
While the eyes of the world have been focused on the spectacular rise and fall of the NASDAQ over the past 12 months, Asian stocks have had an even more spectacular ride, declining to levels not seen since the depths of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. The Asian...
Putting the Cart Before The Horse, Russian Style
Back in the late 1980s, nations of the west were delighted and pleased when Gorbachev introduced the political policies of Glasnost and Perastroika. Mild political reforms in a moribund communist behemoth were the antecedents to the eventual collapse of the Soviet...
How Digital is Your Business? Creating the Company of the Future
An excerpt from the introduction to the book How Digital is Your Business? [CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM] Why this book? And why now? After all (you may be thinking), this isn’t the first book on e-commerce and the Internet. It may not even be among the first hundred...
Time to De-Cycle?
Last week, while going through a pile of international research, I saw a report that shocked me: it was an analysis of defensive stocks with low valuations in Hong Kong. I hadn’t seen defensive-value-themed research of that sort for at least two years, as...
My New Entitlement
By appearance alone, no one would ever guess that next year I’ll celebrate my 65th birthday. Going by this year’s presidential campaign promises, simply by surviving 65 years I acquire the right to have my prescription drugs paid by younger Americans....
Jefferson and Madison: Could They Be Elected Today?
Our elected officials simply mirror our contempt for constitutional principles and our desire to live at the expense of our fellow American.
What is America’s Real Choice in the Upcoming Presidential Elections?
The voters face a clear choice in tomorrow’s election — it’s just too bad the candidates don’t want to admit that fact. Underneath all the muddled rhetoric on the campaign trail, everybody senses what this election is really about. It’s...
What Does CNN’s Constant Advertising on Bush’s Minor Brush with the Law Tell You About the Clinton-Gore Camp?
The story about George W. Bush’s minor brush with the law, two dozen years ago, tells more about the people who leaked this to the press, on the eve of the election, than it does about Governor Bush. Add to this the innuendoes about Ralph Nader’s sex life...
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