For many years medical journals and "wine snobs" alike have heralded the numerous health benefits of red wine. Yet according to a recent study by Dr. Margo Denke of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, the same case can be made for beer – wine's proletarian cousin.
What timing. The senate has started debating competing versions of managed care reform – a.k.a. the Patients' Bill of Rights – an issue that has already been decided in the courts and for which public support is dwindling.
Today, a final word on George Bush, the Kyoto treaty, and the European Union.
Connecticut Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Government Affairs Committee, has inherited from his Republican predecessor a true leadership role in eliminating billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse identified in a recently released federal study.
Ok, so the democrats now run the show in the senate. That doesn't mean majority leader Tom Daschle will always get his way.
There's a very funny book out now for anybody who's ever entertained the notion of leaving city life behind for the country. It's called "It Takes a Village Idiot," by Entertainment Weekly columnist Jim Mullen.
European socialists and Third World nations drafted Kyoto precisely to reduce the America's enormous economic advantages–measured in jobs, incomes or opportunities–by extending international controls over the United States.
A new study by Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby concludes school choice programs – specifically Michigan and Arizona charters and the Milwaukee voucher program – improved not only the choice schools, but also the public schools.
In 1799 a market-oriented french economist named du Pont fled the french revolution.
California hasn't seen the construction of a major power plant for a decade, leaving the state with a massive electricity shortage; it's now dead last among the 50 states in electricity generated per capita. Rolling blackouts, rising electricity prices and political unrest are all the result.
Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom" column, of all places, assessed George W. Bush's impact on American politics saying, "Gets most of his tax cut — and puts spending in straitjacket for the next 11 years."
The end of Social Security as we know it is just 15 years away. FDR's 1935 idea worked well for two-thirds of a century, largely because in the beginning there were a great many working people paying payroll taxes to support each retiree. No more. In the 1930s there were 42 workers per retiree. This ratio had dropped to 5.1 by 1960 and 3.4 last year. By 2030 there will be just 2.1 workers paying in for every one retiree.
It's nice to see the high poobahs of the national media have a sense of humor. At least a few of them do. And if there was ever an event to knock them off their perches and let the humor show, it was the coverage of election night 2000, when all the major news outfits got Florida wrong not once, but twice.
If I seem to be dwelling over much on tax policy these days, there's a reason.
When Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he favors abolishing the corporate income tax, he was simply echoing the sentiments tax reformers on the left and right have shared for decades. Abolition would do more to improve the economic competitiveness than almost anything congress could do.
In 1995, attorney Phillip K. Howard introduced a note of sanity into the public discourse with a book called "The Death of Common Sense." Things haven't improved much since then, so he's back with "The Lost Art of Drawing The Line: How Fairness Went Too Far."
In case you wonder why Dick Cheney's so worked up about U.S. energy policy, you might consider the frustration of people who know where the energy is but just can't get to it thanks to restrictive regulations.
Some environmentalists seem to prefer banning man-made chemicals on the theory that they must automatically be bad. A recent story ought to give them pause.
Whatever the ultimate effect of the new tax bill, one thing is clear: it did not strike a blow for simplification of our tax system.
Post-war Italian politics has been the stuff of farce, however tragic the results have been for the Italians: there have been almost 60 — count 'em, 60 — governments, mostly left-wing patchwork quilts.
Set aside the fact Jim Jeffords told Vermont voters he'd be a republican when they sent him to the senate, and then, in effect, renegged on the promise.
As the Congress works with the White House on an education bill that doesn't include the choice initiative the president campaigned on, McCain has proposed an amendment to create a school choice pilot program for the nation's capitol – home to some of the worst schools in the country.
The Club for Growth has made a convincing case for a permanent reduction in the capital gains tax from 20 percent to 15 percent. Three of its leading economists, Arthur Laffer, Lawrence Kudlow and Stephen Moore argue that the current slump doesn't have anything to do with consumers not spending less; rather it's investors investing less. That's where a capital gains cut comes in.