Feds Grab for Medical Records
One of the major features of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s nationalized health care plan, which the public rejected in 1994, was giving the Federal Government a database of…
Category: Liberalism and Conservatism
Monitoring Americans by I.D. and Federal Database
Two of the principal mechanisms by which the rulers of 20th century police states maintained their control over their people were the file and the internal passport. These…
Consumers Should Hang Up on the Gore Phone Tax
The Conventional Wisdom circulating in Capitol cloakrooms is that Republicans should not move forward on impeachment of Bill Clinton because (a) polls show the public is nonchalant about…
Liberty vs. Totalitarianism, Clinton-Style — July 1998
Liberty vs. Totalitarianism, Clinton-Style Monitoring by I.D. and Database Two of the principal mechanisms by which the rulers of 20th century police states maintained their control over their…
Why Is Congress Criminalizing Copyright Law?
A new plan to straitjacket the American public by criminalizing a common American practice is hidden in the WIPO Copyright Treaties Implementation Act. Powerful Hollywood and software corporations…
The Legacy of Barry Goldwater
It is unlikely that any nominee for President who was not elected ever had the lasting influence on American politics that Barry Goldwater did. Unlike other defeated presidential…
The China Connection Is the Real Scandal — June 1998
The China Connection Is the Real Scandal Now we know why the Democrats were so vicious in their attacks on Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Rep. Dan…
The Surplus That Politicians Want to Hide
For the fifth straight quarter, the U.S. Treasury opened up its sacks of mail and discovered an unexpected windfall of money. April’s surplus is more than three times…
Let’s Pass Real Campaign Finance Reform — May 1998
Let’s Pass Real Campaign Finance Reform Most of what we hear on the media about “campaign finance reform” constitutes political posturing and “spin” about proposals that would do…
Second Thoughts in the House about IMF
In a letter to his colleagues, Majority Leader Dick Armey has just identified what he calls the Clinton Doctrine as the rationale for the Administration’s demand that the…