POLITICS

“Economic Freedom of the World: 1997”, written by Professors James Gwartney (Florida State University) and Robert Lawson (Capital University), has just been published. It is an annual report that uses 17 objective factors to derive a summary economic...

There’s been one balanced budget in the last 38 years (1969). In 1979, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act making balanced budgets the law of the land. In 1982, a “concerned” Congress enacted what was then the largest peacetime tax increase in...

Let’s look at how pressure groups are able to impose their values and preferences on others in ways that restrict liberty. To make my case, I list several restrictions that have been, are, or are being sought such as bans: on handgun ownership, abortion, smoking...

The best thing we can do for American education is to abolish university education departments, abolish the U.S. Department of Education and fire education “experts.” You say, “Williams, have you gone mad?” Let’s look at it. Over the last...

Last February, I wrote about the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) air bag safety coverup and the 52 lives (32 were children) lost caused by 200 mph deploying air bags. Then there were air bag lies. In 1977, the Transportation Department...

Volunteerism is touted as a celebration of the American spirit of community involvement. “Citizen service belongs to no party, no ideology,” said President Clinton. “It is an American idea, which every American should embrace.” His sentiment is...

In October 1994, Lt. Kara Hultgreen was killed during an attempted landing of her F-14 on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. Femfeared (fear of feminists) Navy officials first re ported that engine failure caused the death of the Navy’s first female F-14...

John Stossel’s ABC special “Freeloaders” which aired last week showed just how far we’ve come to being a nation of parasites. It featured people (thieves) who’d go to a restaurant, eat half their meal, and then place an insect in the...

Dr. Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution’s distinguished senior fellow, delivered a lecture in New Zealand last year titled “The Quest for Cosmic Justice.” He discussed how often we observe tragic differences in the lives of people. Some live in luxury;...

For nearly four decades, the education establishment has delivered one failure and set of excuses after another. Education for blacks is nothing less than a catastrophe and education for white kids is nothing to write home about. People can and do make mistakes and...

Soon I’ll write to Virginia’s Governor George Allen demanding that he keeps the faith with his predecessors who, in 1788, ratified the Constitution and brought Virginia into the Union. Let’s do some thinking out loud about this letter just to make...

How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, “Williams, I’m going to make you well...

Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let’s state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. “Okay,” you say, “but what...

At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton chastised those Americans who loved their country but hated their government. That’s a morally blind statement at best. After all would Clinton have said that to Germans who loved their country but hated the...

Retiring Senator William Cohen (R. Maine) was interviewed by Washington, D.C.’s WAMU-radio’s talk show host Diane Rehm. He talked about the changing political climate both in Congress and the nation. Cohen lamented how American traditional skepticism...

It’s amazing how we listen to people who’ve been dead wrong time after time. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, “The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000 . . . World food production cannot keep pace...