Archive for Doug Bandow
Healers Under Siege
Contributing Editor Doug Bandow is a syndicated columnist and the author and editor of several books. He is co-editor of Wealth, Poverty and Human Destiny (ISI, 2003).
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug to combat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. That’s good news for cancer patients in America and around the world. But you wouldn’t [...]
Chemical Hysteria and Environmental Politics
Contributing editor Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
Chemicals are one of the wonders of human creation. They help heal and feed us; they help fuel our autos and heat our homes; they help produce toys and computers. Yet some [...]
The Regulatory Conundrum
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
When Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, wanted a $190,000 Ferrari 360 Spider, he went to a German dealer, since it would have taken two to three years to obtain one from a [...]
Health-Care Demagogues
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
The Bush administration seems ready to push Medicare reform, and Republican legislators are committed to creating a pharmaceutical benefit. The congressional hopper is sure to fill with bills attacking the pharmaceutical industry and probably [...]
Lawyers Run Amok
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
As Washington, D.C., prepared for the descent of thousands of anti-globalization protesters last fall, George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf proposed deploying the ultimate weapon: trial lawyers.
Hit the demonstrators with a class-action lawsuit! [...]
Potomac Principles: Seeing the World Plain
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
Washington, D.C., is filled with professions of good intentions by politicians and bureaucrats as they steadily strip away Americans’ liberty and money. The political class uses even the most serious social problem to cement [...]
Potomac Principles ~ Patriotic Tax Avoiders
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books.
Little upsets politicians more than people attempting to escape their control. So it is with U.S. companies that have fled overseas, now attacked as being unpatriotic and worse by Washington pols.
Over the last decade, [...]
Potomac Principles-The Constitution According to George Bush
White House lawyers have reportedly told President George W. Bush that he doesn’t need congressional authority to go to war. For political reasons, the President says he will seek “congressional support for U.S. action” in Iraq. But will he agree to be bound by a no vote? If not, his request is meaningless.
The Constitution explicitly [...]
Teetering on the Democratic Edge
ANKARA, Turkey-"The main obstacle to democracy is not Islam, but Kemalism," says Atilla Yayla, the unassuming head of Turkey’s Association for Liberal Thinking (ALT). While Turkey has done better than any other Muslim country in mixing Islam and secularism, as a democracy it remains a work in progress.
Where Turkey ultimately ends up is particularly [...]
Only Congress Can Declare War
The Bush administration has been looking at other potential military targets almost since the war in Afghanistan started. But should the President decide he wants to expand the war, he should get legislative approval.
After September 11 Congress authorized President Bush to retaliate against any "nations, organization, or persons" he determined to be [...]
Never Enough?
President Bush’s proposed $48 billion military spending increase for next year exceeds what any other nation devotes to the military. In five years the Bush administration would have the government spend $100 billion more annually than was proposed by the Clinton administration. But for some people, no amount will ever be enough.
"Neither the administration [...]
An Alternative to Failed Foreign Aid
LAHORE, Pakistan-One of Lahore’s small Christian communities sits on army land and thus constitutes an illegal occupation in the government’s view. Most homes have one room. The latrines are makeshift, and families are lucky to survive on $20 a month. These are "very difficult times," one resident told me.
But these people have [...]
Potomac Principles ~ Washington’s Inadvertent Support for Cuban Communism
Havana, Cuba—Roberto Alarcón, well-dressed but of unexceptional appearance, is thought to be the No. 3 man in Cuba, after only Fidel and Raúl Castro. He lazily sprawled in his chair before eight American journalists, fondling his cigar. Asked about Havana’s willingness to negotiate with the United States over its embargo against his country, Alarcón responded: [...]
1Jul2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedPotomac Principles ~The War on Charity
“Congress is going to rebuild Afghanistan for billions, and they can’t take care of 3200 people,” complained Kenneth Foster, husband of one of the September 11 victims, at a public hearing earlier this year. In his view, and that of many other victims’ families, who vigorously applauded his remarks, the September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund [...]
1Jun2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedA War to End All Banditry
Even before the United States wound down its military operations in Afghanistan, it began looking for targets elsewhere. But policymakers must remember that Washington’s primary interest is thwarting transnational terrorists who target Americans, not combating local criminals and insurgents around the globe.
After just three months, the Taliban was overthrown, the al Qaeda network was disrupted, [...]
Potomac Principles ~ Free to Be Stupid
America is a great country. What better evidence is there than the opportunity for people to say the stupidest, most witless things?
Many people probably think that Washington, D.C., has a monopoly on idiocy. Not true. While the nation’s capital is often, indeed usually, void of common sense and good judgment, dumb comments sometimes rise outside [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
