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Bribing the Chinese with Jeeps?

by Charles Smith -- The guiding policy for the Chinese military is the so-called Chinese "16 Character Policy": Integrate the military with the civilian; integrate war with peace; give priority to weaponry; more…

The Republican budget shell game

by Jane Chastain -- During the decades when Democrats controlled the United States Congress, Republicans referred to some of the sleight-of-hand that went on to get around budget constraints as "smoke and more…

EPA should go away

by Jon Dougherty -- There are many federal agencies that have long outlived their usefulness -- too many, in fact. But few demonstrate this better than the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA, more…

Waging war on fat

by Joel Miller -- We moderns are terrifically good at inventing things: the ballpoint pen, automobile, microwave, H-bomb, microprocessor, space shuttle and the idea that Al Gore is some sort of ecological more…

Locate info on 300,000 companies

by Judy Lowe -- Corporate Profiles. Whether you want to find out more about a business because you're thinking of doing business with them, are interviewing for a job, or some other more…

Speech Control Inc.?

by Geoff Metcalf -- Winston Churchill once observed, "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure more…

How big institutions can fail

by J.R. Nyquist -- Today we live in the era of big government and big business. We confront the fact of gigantism in our most important institutions. Our media organizations are huge more…

Make them repeal the 2nd Amendment

by -NO AUTHOR- -- Predictably enough the shooting spree committed by Larry Gene Ashbrook in a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas, has precipitated almost immediate kneejerk reactions -- beginning with Janet more…

East Timor and the FALN

by John N. Doggett -- Connect the dots and follow the money. Those two rules of politics will help you explain the unexplainable. If you want to understand why Bill Clinton sat on more…

A call to arms

by Joseph Farah -- The battle lines are drawn. Americans are faced with an unresponsive and unaccountable one-party political system, an establishment propaganda machine posing as a free press, and cultural institutions more…