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• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/19/2006

Hmm — the headline of today “Thailand has peaceful coup while PM at UN” suggests that we provide free airfare to the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/19/2006

The Canadian government has finally passed a resolution to end the long-festering softwood lumber dispute with the U.S. While it’s not a perfect deal,…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/18/2006

The pope is under attack for pointing out that there is an a-religious element in traditional Islam. The pope was condemned and Islamic radicals responded…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/12/2006

Some decades ago, America having (correctly in my view) decided to reject the Law of the Seas Treaty — in part because it would…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/12/2006

Tonight in D.C., I will be moderating an America’s Future Foundation panel on Latin America in the age of Chavez. At issue: For the region’s…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/12/2006

With the US facing massive problems at home and abroad and Louisiana far from recovered from Katrina, it is nice to see that the…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/12/2006

With the US facing massive problems at home and abroad and Louisiana far from recovered from Katrina, it is nice to see that the…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/12/2006

It looks as though the Doha round of WTO negotiations might finally be back on. So far, the U.S. team has been unwilling…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2006

One of the most important questions in the global warming debate is how modern changes in observed average temperatures compare to previous, documented…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2006

Having solved all other problems on their agenda, the House voted bravely last week (263-146) to ban the slaughter of horses for…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 09/07/2006

This Tuesday, September 12, I will be moderating an America’s Future Foundation panel on Latin America, here in D.C. At issue: Is the region turning…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/07/2006

It’s a thankless task keeping up with the Ozymandian agglomeration of bureaucracy that is the United Nations, so it’s merciful that our friends…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 09/06/2006

When it comes to regulatory policy, it seems that among the few voices of reason in the Europe today is an American. In today’s…

• 07/28/2006

Two hours and 12 minutes of subsidy-sucking. Those people wanted money for everything. Old programs and new programs and more money for all of them,…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/25/2006

Contrary to the network neutrality agenda presented in this Newsforge article by some anonymous individual going by the name of James Glass,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/06/2006

Joseph Farah over at WorldNetDaily makes the case against the Hank Paulson nomination for Treasury secretary, including a nice quote from R.J.