President Franklin D. Roosevelt kept a man on his staff to read small town newspapers and report the pulse of the people so the White House would not be misled by the Washington, D.C. media. President George Bush should be glad he has his attorney, … [Read more...] about The Contras are Hanging On
Eliminate Tax Deductions for Foreign Loans and Losses
Rescheduling and convertibility are not exactly household words, but they may become so soon. Those are the names for the mechanisms by which some big U.S. banks and businesses are planning on making a tidy profit by using American taxpayers’ and … [Read more...] about Eliminate Tax Deductions for Foreign Loans and Losses
Americans Should Say NO To Financing The Soviets — March 1989
Just Say NO to Tax Increases — January 1989
Guidelines for U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade
It is imperative that we stop U.S. banks from giving preferential loans to the Soviet Bloc. We must make sure that U.S. businesses are not subsidized in their trade with the Soviet Bloc. First, it is intolerable for U.S. banks to give better rates … [Read more...] about Guidelines for U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade
SDI is Cost-Effective Defense
Senator Sam Nunn gave his 20-second sound bit for the evening television news a few days ago. SDI, he said, “is a technology, not a theology.” Nunn has it backwards. SDI is indeed a theology – more precisely an ideology – not just a technology. … [Read more...] about SDI is Cost-Effective Defense
Parts of Gorby’s Speech That Didn’t Make Headlines
Soviet Party boss Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t come to New York to deliver the olive branch of peace and renunciation of war. He came to the United Nations to give the fawning liberal media some headlines about promised troop reductions while he … [Read more...] about Parts of Gorby’s Speech That Didn’t Make Headlines
Our Great Opportunity for Real Arms Control
Pressure will be on the Bush Administration to cut defense spending in tandem with domestic spending cuts. However, what we need to spend on defense has no relation whatsoever to domestic spending. Defense spending should depend on the threat to … [Read more...] about Our Great Opportunity for Real Arms Control
The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
For those of us who lived through the dramatic events of November 22, 1963, the many recent television programs revisiting the Kennedy assassination had a morbid fascination. There still are, as Walter Cronkite opined in his PBS documentary, an … [Read more...] about The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
Bank and Business Favoritism to the U.S.S.R.
The U.S. banking business is one of our most regulated industries. Bank examiners have vast powers to bring about compliance with strict regulations and standards. So how is it that U.S. banks can get by with lending U.S. depositors’ money to … [Read more...] about Bank and Business Favoritism to the U.S.S.R.
