Forgive Us Our Injustices
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 December, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org feminist
How would you like to spend Christmas season in prison? Millions of Americans do. Many are imprisoned for victimless crimes, such as marijuana possession. Others are totally innocent. Experts estimate that there are several hundred thousand innocent Americans in prison. Among these many is Christophe Yves Gaynor. In my considered opinion, Mr. Gaynor was framed by a corrupt Arlington, Virginia,…
Read more »Bob Bartley, Bill Roth: Two Who Made a Difference
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 December, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: bill roth washington dc
[See also In Memoriam: Robert L. Bartley, by Peter Brimelow] America lost two tax-cutting heroes last week—former Wall Street Journal editor Robert L. Bartley and former Republican senator from Delaware, William Roth. I knew both men well, having worked with Roth and his staff in creating the Kemp-Roth bill and having served on Bartley’s editorial page. Both men did much…
Read more »Memoir & Defense – My Time with Supply-Side Economics
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 December, 2003|Categories: Scholarship Summaries|Tags: role of investment multiplier on economic growth memoire
This article appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of The Independent Review Supply-side economics is a major innovation in economics. It says that fiscal policy works by changing relative prices and shifting the aggregate supply curve,not by raising or lowering disposable income and shifting the aggregate demand curve. Supply-side economics reconciled micro- and macroeconomics by making relative-price analysis the basis…
Read more »The Trentadue Case: A Coverup That Won't Stay Covered
CNN recently reported that “the Justice Department is re-examining its investigation into the 1995 death of a federal prisoner that the victim’s family alleges was murder at the hands of the government.” The victim was Kenneth Michael Trentadue. At 7 AM on August 21, 1995, officials from the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office arrived at the new Oklahoma City Federal Transfer…
Read more »Propaganda's Forward March
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 November, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Forward . March . Propaganda's
In pursuit of their agenda, neoconservatives have shown no respect for facts or persons. Neocons have lied to the President, the Secretary of State, Congress, the UN, our allies, and the public. In order to fabricate a case for a “preemptive” US invasion of Iraq, neocons used their presidential appointments to manipulate US intelligence services. Neocon policymakers presented President Bush…
Read more »Hate-Crimes Bill Itself A Hate-Crime
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 November, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Bill . Hate-Crime . Hate-Crimes . Itself"
When Republicans get into power they lose their principles. Federalizing crimes is a Republican taboo, because it encroaches on the rights of states, clogs federal courts and conflicts with the courts’ traditional functions. And it can result in double jeopardy and duplicate punishments. These sound arguments are now being abandoned as Republican Senator Orrin Hatch joins with Democratic Senator Ted…
Read more »Bush Fiddling In Iraq While U.S. Economy Burns
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 November, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Burns . Fiddling . George Bush . Iraq . U.S. . While
Are we being spun on jobs by the White House and the rah-rah Bush media like we are being spun on Iraq? Make up your own mind after considering the following. Only a few of the 116,000 private sector jobs created in October provide good incomes: 6,000 new positions in legal services and accounting—activities that reflect corporations gearing up to…
Read more »War Against Reagan Ruining Africa
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 November, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Africa . Reagan . Ruining
War and drought are the standard explanations for starving Africans. War and drought definitely take their toll. But so do tax rates. Jude Wanniski has taken a look at taxation in Ethiopia. This is what he found. [Fall SSU Lesson #9 Taxes in Africa II, Wanniski.com, October 31, 2003] A farmer who earns $68 a year after expenses from cash…
Read more »U.S. Planning To Nuke Terrorists?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|26 October, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Nuke . Planning . Terrorists? . U.S.
“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” Vice President Dick Cheney, 8-26-02. “For those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” President George Bush, 5-30-03. When it became obvious that the neoconservatives would succeed in turning the “war against terrorism” into war…
Read more »New Book Blasts America's Neo-Jacobins
By: Paul Craig Roberts|21 October, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: new book about jacobins america
Do you want to know why President George W. Bush’s focus on the war against terror was redirected to war against Iraq and the Muslim Middle East? Read Professor Claes G. Ryn’s new book, America the Virtuous: Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire. Professor Ryn is a learned, insightful, and courageous scholar who ably explains the ideas that…
Read more »The Super-Hegemon Bleeds Red Ink
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 October, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: vacancies of accountant ink
A child born in America today is $124,000 in debt the moment he draws his first breath. The newborn’s inherited debt grows daily. Upon reaching working age, an enormous debt awaits. How does a newborn get into debt prior to having a mortgage, credit card and car payment? Easy. Government assigns each newborn child a share of its debt. $24,000…
Read more »Too Much TV Gives You Invasions, Bankruptcy And The Draft
With the exception of Americans who rely on TV news, the entire world knows: Saddam Hussein told the truth. President Bush and his neo-Jacobin (a.k.a. neo-”conservative“) cabal lied. Big time. A study by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and Knowledge Networks reports [pdf] that the US is a country in which sizable percentages of…
Read more »America Is For Aliens
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Aliens . America
So you think your government looks out for you? Not nearly as much as it does for aliens. On September 24, Robert Pear reported in the New York Times that the Bush administration has quietly decided to stiff 6 million poor elderly and disabled Americans by denying them Medicare drug benefits. According to the Bush administration, these Americans are already…
Read more »Statement of The Honorable Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D. Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigrobertd
Published on VDARE.com – September 29, 2003 Washington, D.C. – September 25, 2003 Members of the Commission, I appear before you as an independent witness, representing no interest group. I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during President Reagan’s first term. I have worked on the Hill for Jack Kemp (I wrote the Kemp-Roth Bill), for the…
Read more »How the Protection of Law Was Lost
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: shannon denney stigler nursing
Published on VDARE.com – September 25, 2003 Speech given at the Mont Pélerin Society meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on September 21, 2003. The Enron-era accounting scandals have resulted in new legislation, Sarbanes-Oxley, which imposes criminal liability on the CEO and CFO of corporations with incorrect accounting statements. This reform will have unintended consequences, as have previous reforms. A case can…
Read more »Neo-Jacobins Push For World War IV
By: Paul Craig Roberts|20 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org/ dick cheney
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” If neoconservatives have their way, Americans will soon be repeating this refrain. The identical lies used to deceive Americans about Iraq are now being recycled to justify invading Syria and Iran. Before exploring this fact, first understand that there is nothing conservative about neoconservatives. Neocons hide behind “conservative”…
Read more »Outsource The Entire Government – Not Just Parks (And Foreign Policy)
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: outsource entire government
The Bush Administration wants to privatize the US Park Service. Why stop there? If it is a good idea to privatize the Park Service, it is a good idea to privatize the Interior Department. The gains from a privatized Park Service cannot accrue if the operation remains under the thumbs of government bureaucrats in the Interior Department. Conflicting incentives would…
Read more »Did Airline Deregulation Fail?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: airlines deregulation 3 airlines will survive
Morgan Stanley in its August 15, 2003, report on the airline industry in the U.S. tersely notes: “If an industry produces negative total returns on capital over its entire history, consolidation is inevitable.” Atlanta attorney Dean Booth believes that consolidation is taking us to two mega-airlines, which means a return to regulation. Morgan Stanley’s report certainly points that way. The…
Read more »A Wider War – Unless The Democrats Speak Out
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Democrats? . Speak . Unless . Wider
I blame the Democrats for the “war on terror.” I know the neoconservatives planned the conquest of the Middle East long before the events of September 11 gave them an excuse. Internet pundits are familiar with the blueprint for American Empire put together by the neocon think tank, Project for the New American Century. Indeed, everyone in the world seems…
Read more »Neocons Admit They've Blown It – Is The Draft Next?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|28 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: quagmire 2003 iraq neocon
Do you remember the ridicule neocons heaped on critics who predicted a quagmire in Iraq? Now neocons William Kristol and Robert Kagan are calling for more troops and more money – two more army divisions and another $60 billion to be exact. “Next spring, if disaster looms,” they write, “it may be too late.” [Do What It Takes in Iraq…
Read more »More On The Trade Wars
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Trade . Wars
[VDARE.COM note: Craig Roberts' rethinking of trade is being extensively discussed on the Ludwig von Mises Institute's new blog – click here for William Anderson critique, here for Craig's response, and here for Dan Mahoney being thoughtful.] For several years I have been tracking US job losses and seeking to understand the causes. I have written enough columns about this…
Read more »Trade No-think
Sending me many suggestions, readers have beseeched me to revive the “No-think Nation” theme that I developed in six columns during April and May of 2002. I doubt that editors have that big a stomach for the subject, but I will risk one more column. [I, II, III, IV, V, VI] My target is Bruce Bartlett’s syndicated column of August…
Read more »Turning Lawyers Into Government Spies
By: Paul Craig Roberts|12 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Government . Into . Lawyers . Spies . Turning
When will the first lawyer be arrested, indicted, and sent to prison for failing to help the government convict his client? You can bet it will be soon. Once the Securities and Exchange Commission, Internal Revenue Service, and U.S. Department of Justice (sic) complete their assault on the attorney-client privilege, they will rush to make an example of a lawyer,…
Read more »Jobless in the USA
By: Paul Craig Roberts|05 August, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: chinese person . cost of living . discrimination lawsuits . south carolina . world socialism
Throughout history peoples have been overcome by trends and forces that they were unable to recognize. Could the US be losing its economy to forces economists mistake for benevolent free trade? Traditionally, free trade has required a country’s work force to compete indirectly against the work forces of other countries in the markets for traded goods and services. Fears in…
Read more »Remembering The Cultural Revolution: A Nightmare On Film
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 July, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Cultural . Film . Nightmare . Remembering . Revolution:
Mao Zedong’s Chinese “Cultural Revolution” came to an end in 1976, almost three decades ago. Unless they are students of foreign affairs, few Americans under 45 or 50 years of age are familiar with Mao’s third and final violent assault upon China. By 1949 when Mao consolidated power in China, massacres of “capitalists” and landowners had become everyday events. Mao’s…
Read more »Globalism plus Outsourcing Equals American Dispossession
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 July, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: district of columbia . economic recovery . maine north carolina . manufacturing jobs . stocks and bonds . unemployment rate . virginia illinois
Despite the economic recovery, the unemployment rate has risen to a nine-year high. How can this be? Part of the answer is the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs. Between January 2001 and May 2003, US manufacturing jobs declined by 13.3 percent. (The jobs continue to decline. As of June the loss is 14.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis.) Every…
Read more »Martha Stewart Prosecution–A Comedy of Injustice
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 July, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: prosecutor's viewpoint on martha stewart
Martha Stewart is the Michael Milken of this decade. This doesn’t mean that Martha–or Milken– is a big time financial crook. Daniel Fischel, professor of law and former dean of the University of Chicago Law School, demonstrated Milken’s innocence in his book, Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial Revolution. Wall Street wanted Milken and his upstart…
Read more »The Michigan Mess: Supreme Court's Lawlessness Dates Back To Brown
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Back . Brown: . Court's . Dates . Lawlessness . Mess: . Michigan . Supreme
Columnists have had a field day with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court decision [Grutter PDF]. In effect, O’Connor declared diversity to be a “compelling state interest” that trumps the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Thomas Sowell described the five-member majority as “vacancies without resignations.” Shelby Steele declared the ruling “a victory for white guilt.” Michael Kinsley wrote…
Read more »Those Michigan Affirmative Action Decisions: Equal Protection For Whites Endangered
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: craig roberts michigan
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the racial quota system used in the University of Michigan’s undergraduate admissions program (Gratz case) [PDF] and for the racial quota system used in the Law School’s admission program (Grutter case). [PDF] The difference is that “the procedures employed by the University of Michigan’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions do not provide for a…
Read more »In Memoriam Donald Regan
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Donald . Memoriam . Regan
Without Don Regan’s strength and loyalty, Ronald Reagan would have been a less successful president. After Don Regan was nominated as Treasury Secretary by President-elect Reagan, he asked me to stop by to see him. He would need a strong supply-side team, he said, if he was to succeed in his task of getting Reagan’s controversial new economic policy out…
Read more »Jobless Recovery Means Lurch To Left
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: computer system design . federal reserve . jobless recovery . manufacturing jobs . offshore production . private sector employment . unemployment rate
The U.S. continues to lose jobs. Since President Bush has been in office, 2.5 million manufacturing jobs and nearly 600,000 service jobs have been lost for a total decline in private sector employment of 3.1 million. The unemployment rate has risen to 6.1 percent. If this is recovery, what is going on? Pundits call it “the jobless recovery.” The economy…
Read more »No Equal Protection for Whites?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|02 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org quotas
Sometime this month, perhaps before this column is published, the Supreme Court will rule on the University of Michigan’s racial quotas. Both in law school and undergraduate admissions, the university intentionally discriminates against white applicants in favor of “preferred minorities.” It is obvious that the university’s policy violates equality before the law and the Constitution’s equal protection clause. For three…
Read more »Britain, Our Undemocratic Ally
By: Paul Craig Roberts|20 May, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Britain . Undemocratic
Is Great Britain, our junior partner in “bringing democracy to Iraq,” itself a democracy? Apparently not. Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided that he alone is to say whether Great Britain loses its sovereignty and the British people lose their ancient tradition of accountable law. Next month Blair intends to give his approval to a new European Union constitution, which…
Read more »America And Britain: The Conquered Conquerors
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 May, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: child s vitamin w iron
“Who are we? What are we?” These were cries of ancient peoples of conquered cities. With the loss of their city, a people would lose their identity and pass out of history. A similar deracination is occurring today in the U.S. and the U.K. The difference is that Americans and the British are giving away their identity piecemeal. The conquest…
Read more »“The Rights Of Englishmen” – The Wrongs Of American Prosecutors
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 May, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: list the rights of englishmen
Be warned: law, once a shield of the innocent, is now a weapon in the hands of government. Conservatives generally ignore such warnings, feeling that criticism of the criminal justice system plays into the hands of criminals. Since the 1980s I have endeavored to make Americans aware of how the legal protections against tyranny are being lost. This work reached…
Read more »Ending The Good Times – Exporting America's High-Wage Jobs
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: export paulcraigroberts.org
During the first 27 months of the Bush administration, the U.S. economy has lost 2.6 million private sector jobs. Much of this loss is from the fall in profits and subsequent downsizing after the high-tech bust. Some lost jobs, however, are from a new development: America’s export of high-wage jobs to low-wage countries. The collapse of the Soviet Union, China’s…
Read more »VDARE.com: 04/25/03 – Insight on the News – Symposium
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: insight . symposium
Published on VDARE.com on April 26, 2003 Insight on the News – Symposium April 29,2003
Read more »Gun Control: The Criminal Lobby
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts gun control
In Democracy by Decree, recently published by Yale University Press, New York Law School professors Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod show how the plaintiff’s bar and judges have used consent decrees to take government away from elected officials. Two recent books by the Manhattan Institute’s Walter K. Olson and the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre show how class action…
Read more »The Growing Problem Of Wrongful Conviction
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: graphs of wrongful convictions given by judges
Published on VDARE.com – April 15, 2003 The Independent Review |Volume 7, Number 4, [PDF] The execution of an innocent person cannot be remedied. This fact, together with mounting evidence of innocents on death row, has strengthened opposition to the death penalty. Nevertheless, the death penalty has proved to be a divisive issue. The divide between liberals and conservatives on…
Read more »Democracy's Serfs
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig capital gains
Now that you have paid your income taxes, calculate how much you own of your own labor. You can do this by dividing the federal, state and local income taxes you paid (including Social Security and Medicare) by your taxable income. Generally speaking, the higher your income, the less you own of yourself. A person with $300,000 in taxable income…
Read more »Abolishing America, cont'd: Consent Decree Coup
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Consent . Coup . Decree
While American neoconservatives use “the war on terror” to impose democracy on the Middle East, two New York Law School professors urge us to rescue democracy here at home. In a newly released book from Yale University Press, Democracy by Decree, Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod show how the plaintiff’s bar and judges have used consent decrees to take government…
Read more »The Causes of Wrongful Conviction
This article by Paul Craig Roberts appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of The Independent Review. The execution of an innocent person cannot be remedied. This fact, together with mounting evidence of innocents on death row, has strengthened opposition to the death penalty. Nevertheless, the death penalty has proved to be a divisive issue. The divide between liberals and conservatives…
Read more »Iraq Invasion Dooms Saddam – But Also Bush, Blair, GOP, Neocons
Despite stiff and unexpected Iraqi resistance, the U.S. invasion of Iraq is likely to succeed in toppling Saddam Hussein—and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush, the Republican Party, and American neoconservatives. Wars have unintended consequences as well as unexpected developments. The White House, the Pentagon, our troops, and the public were surprised that Saddam Hussein did not “collapse after…
Read more »Unintended Consequences of Earlier Reforms Bite Market Hard
By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: unintended consequences accounting
Washington Times, March 16, 2003 The Number: How The Drive For Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street And Corporate America By Alex Berenson Random House, $24.95, 274 pages Alex Berenson is a New York Times business reporter, who sniffed out a couple of the accounting scandals that investors and Wall Street analysts failed to spot. In “The Number: How the Drive…
Read more »'Gods and Generals': Movie Critics Betray Their Profession
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: march 17
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Read more »The L-1 Visa: New Tool To Dispossess Americans
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: who is supposed to be paying for the l 1 employee
U.S. corporations no longer have to outsource your high-tech or information technology (IT) job to China or India. They just bring your replacement here on an L-1 visa. L-1 visas get around the legal technicalities that Congress placed on the H-1B visa program. Employers are not supposed to use H-1B visas to bring in foreigners to displace U.S. employees or…
Read more »Privilege Before the Law
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: statuses of persons before the law
[Originally published in The American Conservative 2-24-03] Equality before the law is an achievement of a thousand-year struggle, but Americans have carelessly thrown it away. We have spent the past 37 years resurrecting feudalism, a system of differential legal rights based on status. The new legal aristocrats are “preferred minorities”—an official designation—whether they are native-born descendants of slaves or walked…
Read more »Is Outsourcing Trade – Or Dispossession?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: why should we erect tariff in us for outsourcing
In a recent cover story Business Week magazine observed that economists haven’t begun to fathom the implications of outsourcing for the U.S. economy. Economists don’t understand globalism because they don’t think about it. They simply assume globalism to be the beneficial workings of free trade. Most economists take for granted that the benefits of free trade offset its costs. For…
Read more »Abolishing America, Cont'd: Immigrants In, IT Jobs Out
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 February, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Immigrants . Jobs
Do you remember those Information Technology (IT) jobs that were going to take the place in the “new economy” of those outsourced manufacturing jobs? Don’t bother to retrain. The IT jobs are leaving, too. Knowledge work can be done anywhere there are educated people. These days that’s just about everywhere: the Philippines, India, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Costa Rica, and…
Read more »An Immigration Dictatorship
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 February, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Dictatorship . Immigration
Are democracies democratic? Or do elites determine political outcomes regardless of majority opinion? Look at last weekend’s massive anti-war rally in London. Random interviews with participants revealed that many were first time marchers who were protesting not merely war, but Prime Minister Blair’s habit of running roughshod over British opinion. Marchers oppose Blair going to war against Iraq without a…
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