Ready to Compete: The Link Between Productivity, Jobs, and Wages
by Paul Kersey
(May 22, 2004)
Nearly lost in the debate over job creation has been the surge of productivity that has taken place over the last two years. Americans workers are producing more goods per hour of work and boosting their own incomes in the process.
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Revolutionaries Join European Union
by James K. Glassman
(May 21, 2004)
Former communist countries, especially, are resistant to the bureaucratic nonsense that dominates the EU. Many of the new EU countries -- especially the largest, Poland (with a population of 40 million, about the size of Spain), and the most delightfully radical, Estonia -- are outdoing even Americans in their lust for free-market economic policies. The 10 new countries have an average corporate tax rate that's 12 points lower than the other 15, and Estonia's rate is precisely zero.
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The Cheek President Bush is Turning is America's
by Edward Cline
(May 20, 2004)
The most objectionable aspect of Bush's Christianized policy, in his speeches and interviews, is his enervating reference to American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere as instances of noble "self-sacrifice."
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Justice for Little Angelo
by Thomas Sowell
(May 20, 2004)
Little Angelo came to the authorities' attention just 12 days after he was born, when he turned up at a hospital with broken bones.
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Michael Berg: A Mourning Father's Misplaced Outrage
by Larry Elder
(May 20, 2004)
After the brutal beheading of Nicholas Berg, his father, Michael, promptly blamed the Bush administration for his son's death. "Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld," said Michael Berg. "The al Qaeda people are probably just as bad as they are, but this administration did this."
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The Hyena Press: Part 2
by Thomas Sowell
(May 19, 2004)
The distinguished British magazine The Economist, despite its own editorial outrage, reports that Iraqis are not nearly as upset as Americans or Europeans, and are in fact somewhat puzzled at how we have gone ballistic over this episode.
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Educational Ineptitude Revisited
by Walter Williams
(May 19, 2004)
Students who select education as their major have the lowest SAT scores of any major (964). Math majors have the highest (1174).
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The Wreckage of the Consensus Revisited: New York Times Company Admits to Spreading Lies to Undermine America's War Effort
by Harry Binswanger
(May 18, 2004)
The Boston Globe published, as real, fake pictures purporting to show American soldiers in Iraq gang-raping Iraqi women.
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The Hyena Press
by Thomas Sowell
(May 18, 2004)
Since the whole purpose of terrorism is to maximize the pain from whatever acts they can get away with, the media are making themselves accomplices of our enemies.
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United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty
by Cheryl K. Chumley
(May 18, 2004)
U.S. ratification of the United Nations' Law of the Sea Treaty not only compromises America's sovereign ability to traverse and mine or drill the seas absent U.N. oversight, but also jeopardizes our nation's freedom to access the air and space above these waters.
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Last Economic Recession Began Under Clinton, Despite Rewrites By The Left
by Don Luskin
(May 17, 2004)
The great thing about economics, though, is that reality speaks louder than the words from the left. Sixty-two percent of the American public knows that the recession began under Clinton -- they were there and they experienced it. Now, with GDP growth running stronger than in any twelve-month period under Clinton, the American public knows that an expansion is well underway.
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It's Still the Economy, But Are Voters Stupid?
by James K. Glassman
(May 17, 2004)
It's been a miserable month in Iraq, but a wonderful month for the American economy.
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The Sage of Santa Fe: Laddered-Bond Funds
by James K. Glassman
(May 16, 2004)
These laddered-bond funds -- Thornburg Limited-Term U.S. Government (LTUCX), for intermediate-term Treasury notes; Limited-Term Municipal National (LTMCX), for intermediate-term munis; and so on -- have proved enormously successful, and if you're looking for a way to protect yourself against the higher interest rates that seem practically guaranteed, they're just what you need.
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Government Approved Relationships
by Michael J. Hurd
(May 16, 2004)
Today, however, our society has become so politicized that everybody wants a government stamp of approval.
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Optimism: The Good News About Hard Reality
by Michael J. Hurd
(May 15, 2004)
The evil are ultimately weak.
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