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Thomas Sowell ACCORDING to the unanimous preliminary report of the special commission appointed to look into Social Security, the amount of money coming into the system will be insufficient to pay out what was promised b…
Cal Thomas Rep. Gephardt gave a speech in Des Moines last weekend in which he defended Democrats who voted in 1993 to raise income and gasoline taxes. Gephardt seemed to suggest that if Democrats regain control of the Ho…
David Limbaugh Despite what they said then, the Democrats are morbidly fearful of any restructuring of Social Security involving private accounts. How can you explain their opposition to privatization when it will almost…
George Will "Pro-choice" forces are alarmed by this attempt to expand medical choices. Those forces know that the logic of their agenda -- unlimited abortion on demand -- requires them to consider the term "unborn child"…
NTU Endorses FairTax Legislation in the House America’s present Tax Code is extremely punitive and complicated, taking more from American taxpayers than ever before. The current Tax Code is clearly not what the n…
Nat Hentoff What has caused, however, intense controversy about this use of human embryos -- even those extra embryos frozen in fertility clinics and likely to be destroyed -- is illustrated by this definition of an embr…
Jonah Goldberg While preparing for my trip to ANWR, I'd read that this was the most beautiful place on Earth. This was the famous "American Serengeti," as the enviros call it. Senator Joseph Lieberman, denouncing Georg…
NTU Opposes Income Tax in Tennessee As Tennessee Legislators finally adopt a budget without a tax increase, a move applauded by the 335,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU), taxpayers throughout the state hold their…
JEFF JACOBY I repeat: Smaller SUVs will make highways more dangerous, not less. It is fashionable to deride SUVs as dangerous, gas-guzzling monsters, but it would be more accurate to call them family-sized lifesavers. Fo…
Thomas Sowell It should also be against the law to sell anyone's name, address or phone number without that person's express permission. Some banks may send you some fine-print gobbledygook that most people are not going…
Laura Ingraham While we were busy becoming the world's sole superpower, the United States was supersizing itself to superporker status. In "Fast Food Nation," author Eric Schlosser brilliantly chronicles how the growth…
Cal Thomas Stories of lost money at the Department of Education have been widely reported. At the Labor Department, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) had been receiving, as recently as two years ago, about…
Protecting Marriage in the Constitution "Marriage in the United States shall consist of the union of a man and a woman. Neither the Constitution of any state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital s…
Michael Kelly The first great sign of the new political reality was the Endangered Species Act. This law prohibited federal agencies from approving actions that could threaten the existence of protected species, even at …
Larry Elder A restaurateur, a couple of years ago, faced this very dilemma when he rejected, for the position of hostess, a deaf applicant. But the rejected applicant cried foul under the Americans with Disabilities Act,…
Jack Kemp Regulations are a tax on the way we live, work and do business in the same way that the income tax and tariffs are. To sustain long-run economic growth, we must not only get tax and monetary policy right but al…
Cal Thomas The Vanity Fair piece is typical of the liberal response to any success by those perceived as conservative. That's because liberals regard the media as their property and verbally prosecute and persecute any…
David Limbaugh IF so-called pro-choice advocates are truly neutral about which "choice" women actually make, why do they seem so threatened by measures aimed at protecting the fetus in those cases where the woman chooses…
Walter Williams Bastiat warned: "Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain -- and since labor is pain in itself -- it follows that man will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History sh…
http://www.heritage.org/views/2001/ed070301.html Americans haven’t been able to resist the lure of price controls, either. From the time of the Continental Army, when price controls nearly brought a ruinous end…
Cal Thomas Since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, there has been a concerted and effective effort to devalue and dehumanize human life. In our pursuit of personal peace and affluence, new categories of sub-humanity have been create…
Thomas SowellU.S. Postal Service has raised its rates twice this year and is already talking about raising rates again next year. It has also made noises about eliminating Saturday mail deliveries. But the big problem …
Media Bias Why Won’t Anyone Blame the Eco-Radicals? Electricity is more expensive. So is natural gas and heating oil. Al Gore is blaming "Big Oil," whatever that is. Bush is saying that the Clinton administrati…
Why Socialists Don't Want a Tax Cut Just a little refresher on our wonderful liberal media, courtesy of the Chattanooga Times and Free Press. Surveys show: 86 percent of the media's decision makers attend no church…
NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story Newspapers across America in recent months have reported increased gun ownership and the lowest crime rate in 30 years - but they never report these two items together, America's 1st Fre…
NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story "Chelsea entered the swing dance contest and deftly made a cartwheel off her partner's leg," Lipson told the Mercury News. Someone snapped a photo, apparently catching the first daughter i…
REAGAN STATE OF THE UNION 1 In the last six months of 1980, as an example, the money supply increased at the fastest rate in postwar history, 13 percent. Inflation remained in double digits and government spending increa…
Cal Thomas In one hour last Friday (JUNE 29), Stossel exposed the propaganda and one-dimensional perspective about the environment and biotechnology that has caused millions of schoolchildren to repeat the information …