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Can the free market cure Medicaid’s ills?  Rand Paul, M.D. -  Requiring Kentucky Medicaid patients to be responsible for a small co-pay of even $3 for office visits could inject enough free-market motivation to reduce over-usage of health care facilities and begin to alleviate this growing tax burden. …Economics 101 conveys this principle: Any item in the marketplace that is free will be over-utilized. Fiscal restraint only occurs when a consumer pays at least something. In communist Russia bread was free, but the lines to get it were unbearably long and the supply of loaves extremely short. …Last year, the Patton administration changed some of its regulations limiting eligibility for Medicaid nursing home patients. The press had a field day reporting how grandmothers were being kicked out of nursing homes. But what goes quietly unreported are the growing number of seniors who deed their properties over to their children, enabling them to become eligible sooner for taxpayer-funded nursing homes. http://www.bipps.org/article.asp?ID=110

Taxation through the ages - Once, during a radio interview (I’ve been known to repeat this story too), I was asked, “Why don’t you ever criticize big business the way you always criticize big government?” I answered, “I’m not forced to do business with General Motors. If I do so voluntarily, I get a car for my money. But I am forced to do business with the government. Every year I’m forced to pay it roughly the price of a new car. And I’ve never seen that car. Someone else gets it.” …The Swiss have kept their government under control pretty well, in great part because they have had the wisdom to keep the taxing power and the spending power under separate agencies. …Moreover, the Swiss federal government can’t raise taxes without a popular majority, which is usually denied. The Swiss taxpayer, unlike the American, has learned to defend himself.  http://www.sobran.com/articles/taxationages.shtml

DeWeese warns “sustainable development” threatens sovereignty - As just one example, the Bush administration has begun issuing grants to help spread a United Nations-sponsored school program that aims to become "a universal curriculum" for teaching global citizenship, peace studies, and equality of world cultures. The US Education Department has issued its first $1.2 million grant to implement the program.http://www.americanpolicy.org/un/main.htm

Labor Secretary Chao:  UN a threat to U.S. President Bush's labor secretary warned a gathering of conservatives that Americans must pay more attention to the United Nations and its related organizations, which she noted were chipping away at U.S. sovereignty and threatening freedoms.http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/23/103603.shtml

Government and Marriage – Ron Paul The irony is that an initiative aimed at promoting moral values will be funded immorally, by taxing people who may have no interest in such government folly. http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul151.html, and Ron Paul runs unopposed http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36694

Danger of embarrassing the grassroots – Paul Weyrich The Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which the House has already passed, and which is pending as the first order of business in the Senate as Congress returns this week - is an utter disgrace. It is filled with so many foolish pet projects for the districts and states of Appropriations Committee Members that it makes a mockery out of the legislative process. It should be defeated. http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/2004/pmw_0121.shtml

Bush loses in Iowa Bush gained no advantage with the public for his prescription-drug plan. He gained no ground with his bid to legalize millions of illegal aliens. He gained nothing from his attempt at inspiring Americans to join a new space program with a goal of a manned Mars landing. And his domestic spending increases, under attack by his own Republican base, have not served to win new independent or Democrat voters. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36701

IRS to audit Nature Conservancy - The developments follow articles in The Washington Post over the past year that examined financial irregularities and conflicts of interest at the Conservancy. One story described alleged IRS code violations at a Conservancy project in Virginia, and another disclosed a dozen loans that the Conservancy extended to its employees. A $1.5 million home loan went to Conservancy board member and President Steven J. McCormick, who repaid the debt after he was questioned about it by a reporter. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23660-2004Jan16.html

Mars:  Who should own it? http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3462

Are you going to get mad?  Charley Reese on Iraq war http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040121/index.php

Keeping up with the market http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3461

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