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The cornerstone of America’s freedom – property rights - Without property rights, no other important right can long survive. Property rights are the soil in which all other rights can grow and mature. …When the government controls who gets the jobs and who gets housing and consumer goods, the people become completely dependent upon the government – for food, shelter, transportation, medicine, education and everything else. …The attacks on property rights never seem to end. Then, when someone stands up to defend the cornerstone of our freedom, they are too often labeled "greedy" by the very people who lead the assault on property rights. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3019

Civil liberties groups defend other works of art so why not the ten commandments? http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/09-06-03/cultural_1.asp

Experts without expertise by Thomas Sowell -- The crucial factor is that experts pay no price for being wrong, even when children, parents and society at large pay an enormous price….It is impossible to summarize the many insights of "Liberation's Children" or Kay Hymowitz's other book, "Ready or Not." Get a copy of each and discover their sobering message for yourself.  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20030908.shtml

Vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger by Thomas Sowell http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3056

Private schools cost less than you may think - The most recent figures available from the U.S. Department of Education show that in 2000 the average tuition for private elementary schools nationwide was $3,267. Government figures also indicate that 41 percent of all private elementary and secondary schools -- more than 27,000 nationwide -- charged less than $2,500 for tuition. Less than 21 percent of all private schools charged more than $5,000 per year in tuition. According to these figures, elite and very expensive private schools tend to be the exception in their communities, not the rule.   http://www.cato.org/dailys/09-08-03.html

Saving social security and respecting your elders - “The window of opportunity to address the entitlement challenge is narrowing,” warns the GAO. .. Congress should act quickly, to tap the benefits of equity markets, to provide security for America’s seniors, and to encourage good will rather than strife between the young and the old. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=155

Let’s revive an old trait – minding our own business – Charlie Reese http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030910/index.php

End states that sponsor terrorism http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3071

Special school for homosexuals… With an enrollment of 170, the Harvey Milk School is receiving nearly $19,000 for each of its unusually chosen students…. The tired argument is that to fund a Christian school (even indirectly, through vouchers) is to "establish a religion" in violation of the Constitution. But the folks who argue that way always fail to see the utterly religious nature of all education. To exclude one religion, simply because it defines itself in terms that sound "religious," while including other religions (like homosexuality) is prejudicial in an ultimate sort of way. http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/09-06-03/closing_1.asp

Why do intellectuals oppose capitalism? Schooled in the lesson that they were most valuable, the most deserving of reward, the most entitled to reward, how could the intellectuals, by and large, fail to resent the capitalist society which deprived them of the just deserts to which their superiority "entitled" them? … The intellectual wants the whole society to be a school writ large, to be like the environment where he did so well and was so well appreciated…. The school system thereby produces anti-capitalist feeling among intellectuals. .http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2003/09/why_do_intellec.html

How and when should the Constitution be amended? http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/008267.php

The sweatshop scam - Well-off American college students and $25 per hour union workers have banded together in a growing movement for what they describe as a "progressive" cause and a battle against "exploitation." Their goal: to take away economic opportunities from desperately poor people in the Third World. …Why all the outrage, then, from the "progressives"? The anti-"sweatshop" campaign is driven, not by concern for Third World workers, but by hatred for American corporations.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3003

“Buy American” is un-American - Americanism means understanding that a free market, domestically and internationally, is the only path to general prosperity….International trade is not mortal combat but a form of cooperation, a means of expanding worldwide production. The benefits of international trade flow to both trading partners, even when one of the countries is more efficient across the board. This is the “Law of Comparative Advantage,” covered in every economics textbook. Free trade does not destroy but creates employment. …Giving preference to American-made products over German or Japanese products is the same injustice as giving preference to products made by whites over those made by blacks. Economic nationalism, like racism, means judging men and their products by the group from which they come, not by merit….The patriotic advocates of buying American would be shocked to learn that the economic theory underlying their viewpoint is Marxism.http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=576

Judicial nominees – Pryor and the 10 commandments monument On Aug. 27, after a brief but tense standoff, workers carted away the monument-and possibly Mr. Pryor's political career, as well.http://www.worldmag.com/world/issue/09-13-03/cover_1.asp

How Justice O’Connor is likely to vote on McCain-Feingold case http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_updates/us_supreme_court/oconnor_mccai

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