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  • Dec 26, 2003

    To Your Health - December, 26 2003

    Despite all the controversy about the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit, the law signed by the president this month contains a gem of an idea that should command support across the political spectrum. Beginning Jan. 1, 250 million nonelderly Americans will acquire the right to have a tax-free Health Savings Account.


  • Nov 10, 2003

    Resuscitating the flat tax

    The flat tax is making a comeback. Though banished to the political wilderness after Steve Forbes made it the central issue of his losing 1996 bid for the Republican presidential nomination, interest in the flat tax is perking up again. One of the Democrats running for president could do himself (or herself) a lot of good by picking it up.


  • Nov 09, 2003

    Putting national security first

    National defense is a core function of and a primary justification for national government. An implicit contract exists among a nation's people, its government and its military. The government promises to provide its people and their interests with the best defense possible. It promises to provide the military with the best training and armaments available.


  • Nov 02, 2003

    Strike four on Kyoto

    Thought the Kyoto Protocol to curb global warming was dead? Think again. At least that's what Sens. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and Joseph Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, were hoping. In what many thought was a Halloween trick, the two senators tried to bring Kyoto back from the dead with a bill - the "Climate Stewardship Act" - that sought to unilaterally impose many of Kyoto 's restrictions. This despite the fact Kyoto had already experienced three strikes. Let's call this 55-43 defeat strike four.


  • Nov 01, 2003

    Economic clues from the past

    The Great Depression remains the central economic event in American history. Even today, politicians invoke its memory. For example, Democrats routinely accuse George W. Bush of having economic policies like those of Herbert Hoover, on whose watch the Depression began. Given its horrendous effects, accusing anyone of threatening a replay is about as nasty a charge as can be made in politics.



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