Can More Money Make Schools Better?
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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U.S. Social Security For Mexicans?
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.
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Conservative Agenda for 2003
A new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress is gathering this month. It’s time to reaffirm some basic Republican principles and move ahead to achieve conservative goals in all three branches of government.
Continue reading →The Bush-Frist Connection Should Be A Two-Way Street
Even if President Bush didn’t actually engineer Dr. Bill Frist’s election as Senate Majority Leader, this regime change is perceived as a major extension of the President’s power because of their close relationship.
Continue reading →Copyright Extremists Should Not Control Information Flow
The purpose of copyright law is to provide incentives and protection to authors to create and publish original works, not give corporations the power to control the flow of information.
Continue reading →Kissinger’s Exit Leaves Curious Questions Unanswered
Henry Kissinger’s quick trip across the news headlines as chairman of the new commission to investigate the September 11 attacks was curious. I wish the nosy media, which love to indulge in the sport of “gotcha,” would apply their investigative talents to ferreting out the details behind both his appointment and his speedy resignation.
Continue reading →Are The Ten Commandments Unconstitutional?
Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore won his seat campaigning as the Ten Commandments Judge, and he has lived up to his billing.
Continue reading →Move Over For Mexican Trucks On Our Highways
Bush did something Ronald Reagan never would have done in appointing Henry Kissinger to head the 9/11 inquiry, and then Bush did something Bill Clinton never would do by opening our highways to Mexican trucks.
Continue reading →Congressional Agenda for 2003
The clouds of election contests are behind us and a new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress will gather in January.
Continue reading →Was Firing Employees The Issue In Homeland Security?
The Daschle Democrats (bowing to pressure from their union constituency) resisted passing the Homeland Security bill prior to the election because President George W. Bush demanded wide authority to fire or transfer employees in the new 22-agency bureaucracy.
Continue reading →The Mourning After The 2002 Election
Democrats are going through a process of self-flagellation trying to figure out whom to blame for their election-day debacle.
Continue reading →America Must Choose: Open Borders or Civil Liberties
“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.” In his October 17, 2002 appearance before the congressional joint intelligence committees, CIA Director George J. Tenet asserted that prior to 9/11 he was convinced that Osama bin Laden was planning to kill Americans, “and we reported these threats urgently.”
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