Report Links Iraq Deals to Bush Donations WASHINGTON (AP) -- Companies awarded $8 billion in contracts to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan have been major campaign...
"Saving" Social Security Is Not Enough Executive Summary It seems that no politician discusses Social Security these days without a call to "save" the program....
The Forgotten Payroll Tax By Gregory Bresiger It's a huge tax that most Americans don't understand. And most of those who support leviathan government want to...
Read-Write Error A Massachuttes school superintendent making $156,000 a year fails to pass a basic literacy test after three tries. The state education ...
Bobbleheads Against Drunk Driving The federal government has given the state of Tennessee millions of dollars for ad campaigns promoting highway safety. Where...
African no-brainer Anyone who believes President Bush's Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans...
Iraq offered U.S. deal to avert war By The Associated Press Friday, November 7, 2003 WASHINGTON -- Just days before U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq, officials ...
Price controls are prescription for disaster by Stephen Moore It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who once wisely proclaimed that "health is the first wealth." No...
Better day care with less government by Jeff E. Jared Are you tired of paying $200 a week for day care? Wouldn't it be better to pay $100 per week, or less? ...
Mission creep North Carolina officials have found a new use for anti-terrorism laws. District attorneys in several counties have begun charging people accused...
GOP AWOL A long time ago, by which I mean the year 2000, conservatives didn't want to expand the size and reach of government. Today, it's plain that their...
Wedded to Poverty by Michael Tanner Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute, is author of "The Poverty of Welfare: Helping...
Beam me up If you see the police along a highway in Ohio, keep it to yourself. If they catch you flashing your headlights to warn other drivers, they'll cite...
Amtrak's failures Each year since its creation as a passenger railroad owned and operated by the federal government, Amtrak has promised it would break even,...
Free Trade, Not Lots Of Aid, Should Be U.S.' Focus In Iraq by Ian Vasquez Nation building in Iraq has begun, and it is still unclear what form it will take....
Brand-New Entitlement by Michael Tanner It is now too late to stop Congress' headlong rush toward creating a costly new entitlement out of proposals for a...
Oops. No weapons by John Diamond & Bill Nichols U.S. search teams have dramatically scaled back their expectations for finding weapons of mass destruction in...
Since 'partnership arrangements' of all legal kinds can already be 'registered' with county clerks and so on, why should govt be 'licensing' the homo or hetero...
Or burn it by Jay Leno This week the original Constitution of the United States will be on display to the public at the National Archives in Washington, DC....
