Year: 2003

Say What?

Liberals point to Bush's success with Libya as proof that Bush's foreign policy is a failure. You're going to have to try harder, guys. Even your mothers won't fall for this line of reasoning ...

New Leadership Institute Study of PAC Giving Patterns Released

The Leadership Institute has just completed a study of the giving patterns of business and association PACs for the 2001-02 election cycle. It's worth reading. Among the very many tidbits contained within it: Union PACs gave over 90 percent of ...

PETA Terrorizes Little Kids

This sounds like domestic terrorism to me ...

Legal Brief: Illegal Aliens Sue Employers for Offering Illegal Work; An Insult to Donkeys Everywhere; Americans Pay More for Lawsuits Than for Drugs

Illegal Aliens Sue Employers for Offering Illegal Work In America, the word "success" seems to be inscribed indelibly on the national consciousness -- the consciousness, that is, of everyone except a typical federal bureaucrat. It happened in the Clinton Administration ...

Mercury Madness: First-Ever Mercury Limits Called “Gift to Polluters” by President Bush’s Political Opposition

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BACKGROUND: The EPA this month announced a draft proposal to use a "cap and trade" model to regulate mercury emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants. The President's political opponents immediately attacked the plan. A "cap and trade" model would ...

Questions for Old Europe

Ed Haislmaier recommends an article in the German press defending Bush’s decision to limit bids on Iraq contracts to allies. The piece begins: Reconstruction in Iraq has begun in earnest, but many European firms are being left out. The United ...

French People, Like Iraqis, Don’t Deserve Civil Rights

Jacques Chirac really, really hates manifestations of morality. He's now pushing for a law in France barring the wearing of headscarves by Muslims, yarmulkes by Jews and crosses by Christians in public schools. Chirac believes France is a secular state ...

Putin Wins in Russia But Will Liberty?

A good piece and wise advice, in my opinion, about how the Bush Administration should react to the results of the recent parliamentary elections in Russia. The piece, by the Heritage Foundation's Ariel Cohen, concludes: "Russia now has a Duma ...

Money Quote

Our Ed Haislmaier contributes this link and comment: The AP Wire has the following (as Andrew Sullivan would call it), "money quote: "In Tikrit, about 700 people rallied in the center of town Monday chanting 'Saddam is in our hearts, ...

A Scrooge for Our Time

From our executive director, David Almasi: I am one of the biggest supporters of private property rights out there, but let's call a Scrooge a Scrooge. The Hall family owns a piece of property on Main Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts ...

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