Year: 2003

French Diplomats on Strike

Musings from Ed Haislmaier: I am hard pressed to think of a strike I'd be more likely to support than this one. The main question is: How to support it? If we send the strikers care packages or raise money ...
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Washington Post: Battles and Bruises Produce Medicare Bill

This interesting Washington Post November 30 article recaps negotiations over the Medicare bill on Capitol Hill. It includes a few choice tidbits, such as the Hill nixing a detailed White House plan that apparently would have delivered far more fundamental ...
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Police Shoot, Kidnap Citizen — or Maybe Not

Either the Associated Press needs to hire better editors, or the Baltimore police need to find less violent officers. Or so I conclude after reading an article in the Washington Times, part of which I reprint here: County police are ...
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A Dandy, A Fop, But Not a Newcomer

A word we keep hearing about is "metrosexual." Supposedly, the term comes from the notion that a man who is interested in clothes is in touch with his feminine side. We are supposed to believe that his very existence is ...
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Rx for Bankruptcy… and More

Chheck Out Townhall.com's C-Log Blog today for one than one worthy essay on the Medicare bill and conservative thoughts on the fact it was approved by the GOP ...
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Do You Like Miguel? Check Yes or No

An observation by NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: Remember the silly notes you passed back and forth in grade school, particularly about the opposite sex? Like a ballot, you'd respond to your friends' questions about who you liked and ...
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Civil Rights Report Wrong on Environmental Justice Priorities

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published November 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Select Steel, Inc. couldn't build a steel mill in Genesee County, Michigan due to "environmental justice" concerns. Now ...
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Sad Commentary

From our David Ridenour: The big news isn't that a warrant was issued for Michael Jackson's arrest, but that parents would allow their child to have unsupervised visits with the man widely believed to have molested a child ten years ...
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Billboard Needed

From Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, who knows as much about this subject as anybody, comes the best answer to those who say the Medicare proposal on the table is the best that can be hoped for: 1. Congress ...
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The Medicare Conundrum

This article by Ramesh Ponnuru on National Review Online may be the best summary of what conservatives are thinking and feeling right now on Medicare. This is what happens when conservative leaders don't go outside the beltway to build a ...
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