"By creating private accounts, you'd create private assets and private assets could be passed onto another generation as capital. And I think that would change the lives of millions of people," says Wade Dokken. And Wade would know. A former advisor to Hillary...
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Protect National Security and Individual Rights with Military Tribunals
On September 11th, Americans found their nation under attack. Terrorists hijacked civilian airliners, turned them into missiles, and used them to kill thousands of innocent Americans--men, women and children--as well as people from dozens of nations. Today, three...
Kick This Baby Killer Out
If homeland defense means anything, it means being able to dictate who can and cannot call our country home. The case of Melanie Jeanbeaucejour shows that America does not yet have the guts or willpower to swiftly throw out unwelcome guests. This story is sure to...
Fading Shock and Fading Resolve
Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's famous fictional detective, tells a story about one of his early cases: An accountant, he says, was walking down the street when a steel beam fell from a construction site and smashed into the ground, narrowly missing him. After his brush...
Early Warning Signals: Bin Laden Before Sept. 11th
This article was first published as "Bin Laden and Herndon, Virginia" in the The Jerusalem Post (June 20, 2001). Unfortunately, no one listened to its dire warning until after September 11th.--Editor Islamist terrorism has afflicted nearly every Western country and is...
The Reparations Fraud II
Most people seem to have responded to the demands for reparations for slavery in one of two ways. Either they have supported the demands or they have maintained a discreet silence. One of the few people to treat these demands as a serious subject requiring a serious...
The Reparations Fraud
Self preservation is said to be the first law of nature, and this applies not only to human beings but also to organizations and movements. The March of Dimes was set up to fight polio but it did not disband when polio was wiped out by vaccines. Nor did civil rights...
Is the Murdering Minister of “Justice” Jamil Al-Amin another O.J. Simpson?
The murder trial of the year began a few days ago (January 7th) in Atlanta. The case began in May 1999, when a 55-year-old Black-American named Jamil Al-Amin was stopped in the outskirts of Atlanta for driving a stolen car. To avoid arrest, Al-Amin flashed a fake...
What About the War Against the Welfare State?
Dear President Bush, "What can we do to help win the war against terrorism?" Americans all across the country eagerly ask. In response, you insist that we "go about our daily lives," but with a heightened sense of awareness. To live in fear, you correctly counsel,...
Surprise! It Really is a World War on Terrorism
The prospect of war between India and Pakistan shows how profoundly things have changed since Sept. 11. "From this day forward," President Bush announced just days after the attack, "any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the...
“African American” Blackmailers Come to Harvard
I had been thinking that Harvard did well to make former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers its new president last summer, and when the news broke recently that Summers had so offended the stars of the university's Afro-American Studies Department that they were...
The Global Tax Police: Europe’s Tax “Harmonization” is a Smokescreen to Raise Taxes
Globalization is bad news for the world's over-taxed welfare states, particularly those in Europe. Thanks to the increased mobility of capital, individuals can more easily shift their economic activity to low-tax jurisdictions. Such tax competition liberalizes the...
Day of Reckoning
"We will not rest until we stop all terrorists of global reach, and for every nation that harbors or supports terrorists there will be a day of reckoning," says President Bush. Let's hope he means it. Until we overwhelmingly smash every government responsible for all...
Down on the Farm Bill: A Lesson in “Trickle Up” Economics
Other than being rich and famous, what do David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Sam Donaldson and Scottie Pippen have in common? They all feed at the public trough. More precisely, they collect subsidies from the federal farm program, as do at least 14 members of Congress....
Argentina’s Intellectual Collapse: How IMF Policies Ruined Argentina’s Economy
While the world's attention has been focused on the Middle East, South America has been headed toward chaos and collapse. And worse, it is not merely an economic collapse, but a collapse into a disastrous intellectual confusion that threatens to make recovery...
The Clinton Team’s Betrayal
Newspaper readers have been treated in recent days to an orgy of gut-spilling by Clinton administration officials rather painfully eager to show that when they were in office they, too, exerted themselves mightily to get rid of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda...
Laissez-Faire: The Right Cure For Steel
Say you fall and break your leg. The leg hurts, so you take aspirin for the pain. But you don't stop there. You go get a cast, so the leg can heal permanently. Yet the wisdom of treating the cause of suffering rather than merely masking the pain, appears to escape...
Don’t Blame Capitalism, Argentina
A century ago, it was one of the seven richest nations on Earth. But that was long ago, well before it was racked by a lengthy recession and a climbing unemployment rate. Today, Argentina is a shell of its former self. The street riots that broke out just before...
The Medical Welfare State: Osama’s Medical Welcome Mat
If you were an ailing foreigner in need of sanctuary and free medical treatment, it's obvious where you would turn: America.Where could Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind with bad kidneys and a shrinking bank account, be hiding? Well, if you were an ailing...
Burying the ABM Treaty: What’s the Rush?
President Bush had barely finished announcing his intention to withdraw the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty when the cry went up among missile-defense foes: Why now? After all, they said, it's not as if we're about to deploy a missile shield...
Investing Strategies: Asset-Focused “Value” Stocks
In the next few days, the Wall Street Journal will announce the results of its Investment Dartboard contest for the second half of 2001. In the competition, Journal editors ask four market professionals each to choose a single stock for the six months ahead. Their...
Endgame in Afghanistan
Even before the amount of Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan had shrunk to virtually nothing and Osama bin Laden's forces had beat a hasty retreat deep into the mountains, the question arose: Where should we carry the war on terrorism next? Iraq, perhaps?...
Protecting Us Out of Our Rights
Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law, new...
Property Rights Are The Answer
Webster's Dictionary defines harm as: to hurt, damage, injure. People who don't or can't think believe that government should step in to prevent one person from harming another, such as in the case of tobacco smoke. But harm is a two-way street, and it's a daunting...
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