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Rosa Parks – Capitalism vs. Racism – Thomas Sowell Private owners of streetcar, bus, and railroad companies in the South lobbied against the Jim Crow laws while these laws were being written, challenged them in the courts after the laws were passed, and then dragged their feet in enforcing those laws after they were upheld by the courts. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4457

El Salvador’s Secret:  Freedom and Opportunity Cure Poverty El Salvador’s success is simple: It stopped blaming others. …My team and our political record is proof that you can do what your country needs and still win elections. Last year, our party won by a landslide the presidential election. A fourth consecutive term won by the same party in free elections with the same vision is to my knowledge a political phenomenon that has only happened in El Salvador. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=293

Ammunition for poverty pimps – Walter Williams Hurricanes Katrina and Rita uncovered the result of the War on Poverty -- dependency and self-destructive behavior.  Guess what the president and politicians from both parties are asking the American people to do? If you said, "Enact programs that will sustain and enhance dependency," go to the head of the class. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/walterwilliams/2005/10/26/172901.html

Dangerous Caution – Thomas Sowell The choice of Harriet Miers to be nominated to the Supreme Court, and her subsequent withdrawal, shows that caution is sometimes the most dangerous policy. …If the Republican majority in the Senate cannot bring themselves to act like a majority, they may no longer be a majority if their base of support stops supporting them at the ballot box. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2005/10/29/173424.html

Pigging out – John Stossel http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/JohnStossel/2005/10/26/172902.html

Ann Coulter on Miers withdrawal http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9931

Miers may have helped save Bush’s presidency – Buchanan President Bush just survived a barrel ride over Niagara Falls.  A man of reasonable intelligence would not risk it a second time.  http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9933

Beware of the VAT http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47019

The difficulty of intellectually engaging the left – Dennis Prager Those who object to the monopoly that teachers' unions have on public education and to their politicization of the school curricula are labeled "anti-education." Of course, the irony is that if you love education, you must oppose the teachers' unions. …If you oppose "equal pay for equal work" because you believe it undermines economic freedom, you're anti-woman. If you oppose abortion on demand because you believe that the human fetus has a right to live, you are against women's rights. … The "anti" arguments are effective. Conservatives have to spend half their time explaining that they are not bad people before they can be heard. But the Left has paid a great price. Because they have come to rely so heavily on one-word dismissals of their opponents, they have few arguments. http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2005/10/25/172686.html

Northern KY tax bills show hikes for fire districts The law breezed through the General Assembly in just two months without much opposition, taking effect just before 2004 tax rates were set. The law sets a bad precedent, giving officials who are not elected taxing power, said Jim Waters, director of the Bowling Green-based Bluegrass Institute, a free-market think tank…."What recourse do taxpayers have to hold those people accountable?" he said. http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051022/NEWS02/510220330/-1/BACK01&template=printpicart

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