I know that the MSA is the future for health care financing because it is the best option available today for returning control, responsibility and freedom of choice back to the individual, and thereby preserving and advancing quality medical care for individuals. By...
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Goal of the Oklahoma Bombers and the Militias: Sacrificing the Individual to the Whims of a Group
Terry Nichols is currently on trial as an accomplice to the truck bombing that killed 168 people two years ago in Oklahoma City. As in the trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was sentenced to death for his role in the bombing, many people are still asking: What could...
Silencing Dissent
After years of procrastination, I finally got around to reading Yale University law professor Stephen L. Carter's, book, Reflections of An Affirmative Action Baby. Carter writes engagingly about race issues like affirmative action, racial stereotypes, and the civil...
Why Clinton’s Race Panel’s Recommendations Will Not Work
Our leaders have not had the courage to identify the proper antidote to racism and the proper alternative to racial thinking: individualism.
Proposition 209 vs. Racism
California voters passed the California Civil Rights Initiative of 1996, more popularly known as Proposition 209 that says, "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color,...
Economic Freedom and Progress
"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 freedom rating,...
Will There Be A Balanced Budget?
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 U.S. history....
How To Restrict Liberty
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 in...
Improve Education: Fire The Experts
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 30 years, achievement test...
Air Bag Safety Coverup
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 claimed...
The Americanization of Servitude
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 shared by Presidents...
Gender-Norming Update
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 pilot....
Economics 101
Many people think economics is about businesses and financial institutions but economics is much broader than that. Economic theory makes a valuable contribution whenever there are costs and benefits of any human action. Take dating. Suppose you see a fat, old, ugly,...
The Coming Social Security Disaster
The Social Security's Board of Trustees' most recent report predicts the system will be insolvent by the year 2029; they had been predicting insolvency in 2030. By 2010, the Social Security system will be running deficits, the year when the Social Security trust funds...
Campaign Finance Scapegoat: Proof of Washington Rot
The nation's response to the scandal-a-day revelations about money funneled into Clinton's reelection and the Democratic party's fund raising is entirely mis-focused. Campaign finance reform measures such as full disclosure and dollar limits do not address the...
Freeloaders
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 remaining food in order to get the...
Cosmic Justice
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; others live in...
Duped Americans
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...
Iraq: The Wrong War
President Clinton's air strike against Iraq is more than geographically misguided. Clinton is fighting the wrong country for the wrong reasons. Because he "doesn't want to take sides," Clinton has launched missiles and flown patrols well away from the battle area,...
Social Security Rescue Plans Mean Government Ownership of Business
The only really proper reform is the gradual abolition of the whole system, accompanied by the restoration of conditions in which people can rely on the future buying power of their savings.
Virginia’s Father’s Wisdom
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 sure my reasoning is...
Praise for America’s Unsung Heroes
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 off."? That...
Attacking the Heart of Medicine
One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin's recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America's health-care policies are courting a similar failure. Competent...
Cherishing Property Rights
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 are private property...
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