Twenty Years After Supply-Side Revolution, Washington Still Favors Higher Taxes
By: Paul Craig Roberts|31 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: After . Favors . Higher . Revolution: . Still . Supply-Side . Taxes . Twenty . Washington . Years
The U.S. has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world. Yet, its financial reporters and financial policymakers are anything but sophisticated. In a recent Wall Street Journal article (Dec. 19), reporters Jeffrey Ball and Karen Lundegaard confused depreciation–a business expense–with a reduction in the price of a consumer product. Business owners, the journalists reported, could get up to $21,560…
Read more »Lott Lynching Threatens First, Fourteenth Amendment
The real casualties of the Trent Lott fiasco are the Constitution’s First and Fourteenth Amendments, not the senator himself and the Republican Party’s reputation. America’s heralded First Amendment is fading fast. Many universities have restricted or eliminated all speech that might possibly be interpreted as offensive to members of victim groups. An organization exists, the Foundation for Individual Rights in…
Read more »America's Stake In Christmas
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America's . Christmas . In . Stake
Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became…
Read more »Lott Case Shows Free Speech At A Crossroads In U.S.
By: Paul Craig Roberts|19 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: A . at . Case . Crossroads . Free . In . Lott . Shows . Speech . U.S.
The difficulty in which Senator Trent Lott finds himself is not really about him. It is about the ability of racial minorities to censor the thoughts and words—including throwaway lines such as Senator Lott used in his birthday tribute to Senator Thurmond—of white people even to the point of destroying their careers. If a U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader…
Read more »Hate and Ignorance at Vanderbilt
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: and . at . Hate . Ignorance . Vanderbilt
Just before Thanksgiving the editor of the Nashville newspaper, The Tennessean, and Vanderbilt University professor Jonathan Farley teamed up to commit a hate crime. Farley wrote, and the Tennessean published, an article that attacked the United Daughters of the Confederacy for what Farley calls “honoring traitors.” Farley’s article brims with hatred of Confederate Army soldiers and their descendants. Farley wrote:…
Read more »Lott A Victim Of The New Feudalism
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: new feudalism craig
For three decades the United States has been descending into a feudal legal order. In the ancient feudal system, the differential rights in the legal system were class-based. In the new feudal order, rights are determined by race, gender, and handicapped status. In the old feudalism, the people with the most rights were descendants of warriors. In the new system,…
Read more »Social Security Scam Shows How Immigration Corrupts
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 December, 2002|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Corrupts . How . Immigration . Scam . Security . Shows . Social
If the government cannot control the documents it issues, what is the point of issuing more documents, such as a national identity card? Last week U.S. Attorney William S. Duffey Jr. announced the arrest and indictment of Social Security Administration employees in Atlanta, Georgia, for selling Social Security numbers to illegal aliens. The U.S. Attorney’s office described the scheme as…
Read more »European Union Consumes Nations, Threatens U.S.
Europe as we have known it is disappearing. Soon there will be no France, no Germany, no Italy, no Austria, no Spain, no Denmark, no Belgium, no Holland, no Greece, no Ireland, no Great Britain. Every country will be gone. In their place will be the European Union. The sovereign countries of continental Europe and Great Britain are products of…
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