With Texas Governor George W. Bush being the Republican presidential front-runner, his record has come under heightened press scrutiny. This is natural since Bush's record as governor could indicate the types of policies he might pursue as president.
Just how I wanted to start the New Year: reading that government was just as wasteful as I said it was last year.
Last year, when Congress rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, you'd have thought they voted down mom, apple pie and the flag. But their sense of History was working just fine.
Many people now mistakenly think that OSHA rules do not cover telecommuters, yet the 1970 OSH Act makes employers responsible for making sure that workers have safe and healthy workplaces. But it does not define what a workplace is. Thus, the OSH Act appears to cover anyone who works from home and is exposed to well-known hazards.
Some entrepreneurs have struck a one-two blow for capitalism and the Internet.
The National Center for Policy Analysis announced today that a new episode of the nationally syndicated program DebatesDebates, a series of programs, which are sponsored by the NCPA, will be made available to stations starting tomorrow.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration, OSHA, floated a plan last week that makes companies with people who work at home responsible for their workplaces. The nanny state just took a big step forward.
Demagoguery on issues dear to our hearts has become the political norm. This year is different however. Not for the absence of such talk, but for who is employing it and against whom.
If at first you don't succeed, take smaller steps and people won't realize where you're going. This is the new motto of the liberal movement, now at the tail end of the Clinton presidency. Learning from him, incrementalism is now seen as their key to victory.
With his domestic policies stalled and his personal reputation tarnished by Zippergate, Bill Clinton's last hope for a legacy lies in foreign you should pardon the expression — affairs.
Light rail has proven incapable of solving these problems. After four years of operation and more than $900 million spent on light rail, both traffic congestion and the air pollution associated with it have gotten worse.
I have bad news for the trial lawyers and Clinton administration officials are pursuing constitutionally and legally dubious lawsuits against gun manufacturers. They're trying to recover public costs of what they call criminal and negligent gun misuse. The bad news? The public isn't with them.
While taxes have reached an all time high, polls seem to suggest that interest in a tax cut couldn't be lower.
Sometimes ideas are so breathtaking they can't be summed up a couple of hundred words. In this case, it's a piece in the December second issue of Intellectual Capital dot com by Alex Lightman. It's an interesting plan to take the United States public.
Yesterday we considered al gore's flawed health care proposals. What about his rival's?
Presidential candidates are coming out with plans to address health care. Let's start the new year by taking a look at them. Today, Al Gore.