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Debating drugs

by -NO AUTHOR- -- "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money" -- Senator Everett Dirksen on the occasion of Lyndon Johnson's first $100 billion budget. To listen more…

My friend, Shylock

by Joel Miller -- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, for I did dream of moneybags tonight. --Shylock Everyone remembers the character Shylock from Shakespeare's play, "The Merchant of Venice" more…

Media circus: the end of news as we know it

by Maralyn Lois Polak -- The story, as my old college journalism professor Jackie Steck always liked to say to us Lincoln Steffens wannabes, is what you tell your spouse across the supper-table. more…

The John Huang saga

by Charles Smith -- On Jan. 7, 1993, John Huang, then Vice Chairman of the Lippo Bank, wrote to Ron Brown, then chairman of the Democrat National Committee, in stilted English: "Congratulations more…

In defense of Fidel Castro

by Jude Wanniski -- To: Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. From: Jude Wanniski Re: Cuban Reconciliation In October 1993, you invited me to a dinner at your home in Harlem to meet the more…

Benefits to starvation

by Walter Williams -- Brutal as it might be, there has been a beneficial side to conquest, particularly to future generations of conquered people. You might think that's awful to say, but more…

Castro's blackmail of Clinton

by Linda Bowles -- We have it on good authority that the pre-dawn, paramilitary raid to rescue little Elian Gonzales was necessary to "uphold the rule of law." We've heard that said more…

Like Monica, so unto Elian

by Joseph Farah -- "Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place more…

Tony Blair's Mendocracy

by -NO AUTHOR- -- Yes, of course Britain's Prime Minister tells lies. And his government's record on that score is truly remarkable. It may well have given birth to a new Latin-Greek more…

Man for all politial seasons?

by Lenora B. Fulani -- John McCain apologized last week for failing to oppose the display of the Confederate flag at the State Capitol in the midst of the South Carolina Republican primary. more…