Death and Taxes—UBS stock has fallen from $52 a share, to $23 a share, over the past six months. And now UBS executive Phil Gramm’s political stock is also tanking. Gramm has been doing much of the economic thinking for John McCain, after stepping in and reorganizing the McCain campaign when it appeared to be […]

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IF YOU HEARD OF A COUNTRY that in 1995 introduced single-payer universal health care, with complete freedom of choice of doctors and no waiting lists, you would expect all the presidential contenders to be beating a path there to find out what was happening. After all, this is not Shangri-la. It is Taiwan, which also […]

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HILLARY CLINTON’S health care plan and the health care plan that would serve as a President Barack Obama’s opening hand with what will certainly be a Democratic Congress comes down to the idea of individual mandates. The Clinton plan would force everyone into a pool of the insured, as state governments force […]

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Return of the Contra Band—One day after he was attacked by George W. Bush in a speech before the Knesset in Israel, Barack Obama made the case that there is no daylight between the most unpopular president in modern history and the Republican who is campaigning to succeed him. In less than ten minutes, Obama mentioned John […]

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AFTER THE DOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, SCHOOL BOARD adopted the concept of “intelligent design” into its biology curriculum in the fall of 2004, Seth Cooper, an attorney with the Discovery Institute, headed for south-central Pennsylvania to visit the school district. Cooper should have been a supporter of the Dover board’s actions. The Seattle-based Discovery Institute is the […]

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