President Bush is celebrating the first anniversary of his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Education bill and hopes it will give a significant boost to his re-election in 2004.
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Social Security, the so-called “third rail” of American politics, has just become more incendiary. The Bush Administration is proposing a change that is even more controversial than offering younger workers the opportunity to invest a small percentage of their Social Security taxes.
Continue reading →The clouds of election contests are behind us and a new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress will gather in January.
Continue reading →“They are coming after us, they want to execute attacks. … The threat environment today is as bad as it was the summer before Sept. 11.”
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The Republican National Committee’s mail-order fundraisers often contain a comprehensive multiple-choice survey so that prospective donors can give their opinions on topics of national importance. One issue, however, is conspicuously missing from the list: border security/immigration.
Continue reading →The big health-care debate in Congress this summer was over the wrong issue. Instead of threatening to bankrupt Medicare by forcing the taxpayers to buy prescription drugs for seniors, Congress should relieve the taxpayers and paying-patients of the burden of providing hospital care for illegal aliens.
Continue reading →“I am ruling out a tax increase,” the new Governor of debt-ridden New Jersey declared the day after his election. He said he is embarking on “an agonizing reappraisal of what government should do, and perhaps more importantly, what government ought not be doing.”
Continue reading →When demonstrators displayed anti-American signs against our President while traveling to Europe last month, we could brush it off as a bunch of street radicals getting their kicks. But it is an insult when a foreign head of state comes to the heart of the United States and attacks our laws while his audience waves foreign flags.
Continue reading →The IRS tax collector, using the police power of the government, takes a big slice of your income while sweet-talking you with the lie that this organized theft is really an investment (even though it will rapidly vanish rather than grow).
Continue reading →Instead of the present plan to cut the death tax rates for all in small incremental steps stretched out over many years, President Bush and Congress should compromise by raising the exemption to $10 million.
Continue reading →Tests, standards and accountability are the watchwords for public school education reform. Such good words! Can they do the job?
Continue reading →The marriage tax is not verbally expressed as policy in any statute but is buried in the numbers. It is a consequence of the fact that our income tax tables treat a married couple as only 1.67 persons instead of two whole persons.
Continue reading →Since Bill Clinton stuck his finger in the eye of all who care about American sovereignty and constitutional rights by signing the International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty on New Year’s Eve, Congress should immediately pass Senator Jesse Helms’s American Servicemembers’ Protection Act.
Continue reading →In a televised Public Service Announcement sponsored by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, sibling tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams shared the secrets of their success. According to the champs, their triumphs in tennis would not have been achieved had they used illegal drugs.
Continue reading →What happened to our tax cut? Although taxpayers’ money is rolling into the U.S. Treasury at an unprecedented rate, we didn’t get the tax cut Republicans promised.
Continue reading →President Clinton’s National Security Adviser Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger was driven in a bullet-proof White House limousine on November 4 to address the members of the Bilderberg Steering Committee who were dining at the Library of Congress.
Continue reading →Cut taxes across-the-board to put money in the pockets of all taxpayers. Cut rates — the proven way to keep the economy moving. Americans are overtaxed.
Continue reading →In his struggle to hang on to his failed presidency, Bill Clinton appears only before the groups he can count on to shore up his self-esteem by giving him a standing ovation, such as the United Nations General Assembly, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Democratic “fat cats” in multinational corporations.
Continue reading →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.
Continue reading →Most of what we hear on the media about “campaign finance reform” constitutes political posturing and “spin” about proposals that would do nothing to correct campaign abuses, but would do a great deal to interfere with the First Amendment right of citizens to spend our own money for the candidates of our choice.
Continue reading →President Bill Clinton made a major speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 1997 in which he set forth his hopes for the future.
Continue reading →At last somebody in government has stepped out from the crowd and said what Americans have been waiting to hear, namely, that he has a plan to cut and simplify our oppressive tax burden and let us spend our own money any way we want to spend it.
Continue reading →Sometimes I think there are only two classes of people: those who can profit by the mistakes of others and those who insist on making their own. With the glaring example of Quebec just across our northern border, a festering wound of ethnic disunity verging on national dissolution, how could the Republican Congress even think of permitting Puerto Rico to play a similar role in the United States?
Continue reading →While most Americans were enjoying nonpolitical fireworks and cookouts over the Fourth of July weekend, 8,923 delegates and 5,469 registered non-delegates to the annual National Education Association (NEA) convention were meeting in Atlanta to gloat about their political victories.
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