The handover of power to Iraq by the victorious American forces has stimulated public discussion about a word that seems to have fallen in disfavor in the last few years: sovereignty. That means the ability of a government to act without being subject to the legal control of another country or international organization, restrained only by moral principles.
Continue reading →The Bush Administration tried to camouflage its 180-degree reversal of its tariffs on imported steel with happy talk about an improved economy and efficiency efforts by the domestic steel industry. But nobody’s fooled; the Bush Administration ceded control of U.S. trade policy to a bunch of bureaucrats in Geneva who meet and decide in secret, and from whose ukases there is no appeal.
Continue reading →Trade representatives from 34 Western Hemisphere countries (all except Cuba) are now gathering in Miami to take the next step to expand NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) into the hemisphere-wide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Continue reading →American businessmen and farmers are finally waking up to how they were sold a bill of goods by those who promised that China would be a profitable billion-mouth market if we just gave that developing country Most Favored Nation trade privileges and assisted its admission into the World Trade Organization (WTO). Like Claude Rains in “Casablanca,” the Bush Administration is “shocked, shocked” to discover that Communists don’t play by the rules or keep their promises.
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The Bush Administration just took a welcome step to disentangle the United States from the global legacy of the late, unlamented Clinton Administration.
Continue reading →Where are all those strict-constructionist Republicans who’ve been complaining about activist judges who don’t respect the fact that the U.S. Constitution gives “all legislative powers” to the Congress? Don’t those Republicans realize that it is just as unconstitutional to transfer legislative powers to the executive branch?
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American freedom absolutely depends on maintaining our independence and sovereignty as well as the integrity of the United States Constitution, all of which are under massive attack from many sources.
Continue reading →President Clinton’s Chinese benefactors and the multinational importers are demanding that he bully Congress into continuing China’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) trading status, already renamed Normal Trade Relations (NTR). Now the plan is to grease China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) by making this favorable treatment permanent (PNTR).
Continue reading →It wasn’t just idle words when Bill Clinton said he “loathed” the military. He has damaged U.S. Armed Services in so many ways that it’s no wonder morale, recruitment and retention levels are at all-time lows.
Continue reading →Bill Clinton’s threats to enter the Kosovo conflict are a direct attack on national sovereignty, our own as well as Yugoslavia’s. The foreign policy gurus of the Clinton Administration don’t believe in the concept of sovereignty and are trying to replace it, piece by piece, with their global utopian vision.
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.
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