With the whole world rejecting socialist central planning and rushing toward a free market, Corporate America is pushing the Bush Administration toward adopting the discredited socialist system. They don't call it that, of course, they call it “an … [Read more...] about Corporate America Demands Taxpayer Subsidies
Amending the Constitution
The United States Constitution has been amended only 25 times in more than two centuries, and only L6 times if you consider the Bill of Rights as a single act. Yet now, in the third year of our third century, we have two constitutional amendments … [Read more...] about Amending the Constitution
Ethics May Win Out, After All
What's happening is that the voters are getting back at Congress for the pay raise they so dishonestly passed in late 1989, as well as for the tax increase of 1990. Congress thought it had put one over on the voters, passing the pay raise in the … [Read more...] about Ethics May Win Out, After All
Wake Up Congress, the Taxpayers are Watching
Wake up, Congress. Time is running out on your sweetheart deals, and the American people are giving you a wake-up call. You got by with the tax increase, the middle-of-the-night pay raise, and the unpaid accounts at the Capitol Hill restaurant, but … [Read more...] about Wake Up Congress, the Taxpayers are Watching
The Democrats’ Tax Bill is a Bad Deal
Do you get the idea you are just onlookers watching a charade when you hear about what Congress is doing about taxes? of course, the Democrats' tax bill is not a tax cut at all; it will not reduce federal revenues by $1, but really is a tax … [Read more...] about The Democrats’ Tax Bill is a Bad Deal
Bon Voyage to John Frohnmayer
The with-no-regrets termination of John Frohnmayer as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was long overdue. But one swallow does not a summer make, and now is the time for a total basement-to-attic housecleaning at the agency that … [Read more...] about Bon Voyage to John Frohnmayer
Scandals Shake the Imperial Congress — March 1992
America 2000 is Heading Us into a National School System
Education has emerged as a national issue in a very short historical tine-frame. that speed in itself is newsworthy; the U.S. Department of Education only dates from the Jimmy Carter administration in the 1970s, and Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 … [Read more...] about America 2000 is Heading Us into a National School System
George Washington’s Birthday
I won't be among those celebrating “Presidents’ Day” this month. So many of our Presidents don't deserve to be honored with a holiday. The official switch from the observation of Washington's Birthday on February 22 to “Presidents’ Day” on the … [Read more...] about George Washington’s Birthday
Illiteracy, Psychotherapy, and Self-Esteem — February 1992
