Tax-rate reductions are economically beneficial because a cut in tax rates reduces the negative effects of the tax on economic behavior. A tax-rate cut increases the after-tax rate of return on capital investment, on starting a business, on saving, and on working. When you tax something, you get less of it. When you tax something less, you get more of it. This is why every time we've cut federal tax rates in the U.S. we've seen a spurt in productivity, employment, investment, asset values, and output.

You have Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Democrat, running as a Republican simply because it's the easiest route to Gracie Mansion. He wouldn't know a conservative idea if it showed up in his bank statement.

Remember: the harder it is for kids to get guns, the less likely it is that they will go on shooting sprees.

Bad news, ladies and gentlemen, for you online music thieves and free loaders who think you ought to be entitled to the work of others for nothing. A federal judge gave the recording industry another victory today in its bid to control digital music, saying that Napster has just 72 hours - that's three days for those of you in Palm Beach County - to block any copyright songs. That means you had better start downloading fast, freeloaders. You had better log on like bats out of hell to download Meatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell," because in three days, the store door gets locked.

Is anyone else embarrassed that while past generations illegally traded booze (prohibition) and drugs ('60s), we're going to be known as the generation that broke the law to traffic in pop music?

In fact, increased police enforcement particularly benefits minorities because the vast majority of violent and property crimes are committed against persons of the same race and ethnicity. Criminals seldom travel far to find homes to burglarize, and violent crimes tend to be committed against friends and family members. So inner-city blacks and Hispanics are the main victims of crimes, as confirmed by the federal Crime and Victimization Survey.

In all honesty, I can neither give this book a whole-hearted recommendation or a thorough trashing.

Notwithstanding the breathless reporting, the procedure the Vice President underwent was apparently to open an area at an edge of the stent which was installed last Fall. That area had narrowed due to a natural reaction of the artery wall to the injury of the stent having been installed in the first place.



It happens.

One fact we must be absolutely clear about. George Bush did not win the election. And it's up to all of us here today to act like he did not win the election.