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Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:54:36 PM
It is with deep sorrow that we share the news of Jude Wanniski's sudden passing Monday afternoon. The political economist died of a heart attack at the age of 69. Monday, August 29, 2005 11:21:57 PM
Perhaps the most pleasant surprise of the year so far has been Israel's fulfillment of its promise to clear the Gaza Strip of the 8,000 Jewish settlers. Those of us who doubted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would carry out his plan to completion are now saying this may be his "finest hour." Monday, August 29, 2005 02:34:54 AM
As you know, Gary, I did publicly announce my vote for Sen. John Kerry in last year's presidential election, even though I had earlier in the year characterized him as a "cardboard candidate." Wednesday, August 24, 2005 01:55:01 AM
At some point, Bill, aren't you going to have to look back and say you really goofed, in the myriad articles you wrote in your Weekly Standard, promoting the war in Iraq? Sunday, August 21, 2005 05:34:02 PM
Dear Trent Lott.... I caught you on "Meet the Press" this morning and of course agree with you completely that your Republican colleague, Bill Frist, betrayed you back in 2002 when he announced he would run for Majority Leader at a point when you might have survived in that post. Sunday, August 21, 2005 01:05:15 PM
I keep pinching myself, Karl, but the more stuff released about the way the President's Supreme Court nominee has thought about the judicial and philosophical foundation of our nation from his early years, the more I think he really should be presented as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Justice Rehnquist retires. Wednesday, August 17, 2005 07:16:29 PM
Dear Lou.... A few weeks back you responded to one of my e-mails asking me to explain the trade deficit from my perspective. Tuesday, August 16, 2005 03:21:23 PM
A few days ago, I got an e-mail from a young British historian who asked for my help on a project he is embarking on -- an account of how the American conservative movement morphed into the neo-conservative movement. Monday, August 15, 2005 01:19:49 PM
Memo To: Chris Wallace, Fox News Sunday From: Jude Wanniski Re: Give Him a Vacation Saturday, August 13, 2005 04:05:10 PM
For the last several years as housing prices have increased all across the country we have heard incessant warnings from analysts and commentators that Americans are becoming irrationally exuberant in snapping up new homes at ever-higher prices. Wednesday, August 10, 2005 08:05:57 PM
As I promised you yesterday, in my memo to you defending Iran, today I am doing the same regarding North Korea. I'd already thought of ways to present the defense, as I have been following this story for 12 years and have come to believe that it has been the United States acting badly throughout. Wednesday, August 10, 2005 06:57:01 AM
Memo To: Bob Zoellick, Deputy Secretary of State Re: Saving the NPT Monday, August 08, 2005 10:45:45 AM
The only reason the Valeria Plame affair remains a big story is the small possibility that when U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the federal grand jury take action, any day now, it may reach into the Oval Office. Saturday, August 06, 2005 07:57:11 AM
If you happen to be home today, Mr. President, you surely saw the front-page article in the New York Times, "Niger's Anguish is Reflected in Its Dying Children," by one of its best correspondents, Michael Wines. Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:15:09 AM
The reason I had not commented earlier on the fracturing of the AFL-CIO in the last two weeks was that I really had not much to say, given the fact that organized labor has been in steady decline over the past three decades. Monday, August 01, 2005 06:26:28 PM
There are myriad antiwar websites that serve up news and commentary you can't find in the major media, but after several years of keeping track of antiwar.com I have to conclude it is the best of the bunch. Saturday, July 30, 2005 02:54:27 AM
We would hope you would understand that the dominance of the USA in the last century could not have evolved if the dollar was not fixed and guaranteed in terms of gold. Now that the dollar is floating, it opens up competition to other major countries to produce a currency "as good as gold." Wednesday, July 27, 2005 05:53:10 AM
Dear Ron...I didn't watch all of Greenspan's testimony before the House Financial Affairs Committee last Wednesday, but I was lucky enough to catch the one question they gave you time to ask. Monday, July 25, 2005 10:49:15 AM
As far as I know, the major media have never published the complete transcript of the "Downing Street Memo" of July 23, 2002, that anti-war activists now argue is the smoking gun that calls for the impeachment of President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Saturday, July 23, 2005 09:06:14 AM
It was Wm Shakespeare who noted that a rose by any other name is a rose, and it was Gertrude Stein who saw it from a woman's point of view, observing that "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose." Wednesday, July 20, 2005 11:04:35 AM
It has been several months since I have been moved to comment on one of your columns, Professor, although I do take the trouble to read, or at least begin, all of them. Monday, July 18, 2005 02:27:19 PM
There are so many things for our fellow citizens to be worrying about, Mr. Fitzgerald, that I am wondering when it is you are going to show you cards in the case of Joseph Wilson IV and his wife Valerie Plame. Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:11:24 AM
I could have simply written a memo today about Jack Nicklaus, who played his last competitive PGA tournament with his round at the British Open this afternoon. The crowd at the Old Course at St. Andrews cheered in waves of love and affection for the greatest golfer of our time. Eight years ago, in this space, I devoted the memo not to the 10 athletes I most admire, but to the 10 men then living that I most admired. Nicklaus was the only athlete on the list. And as you will see, I had in 1975 written an editorial for The Wall Street Journal to applaud Nicklaus upon his winning the Master's on the preceding weekend. It was the first editorial in the 100-year history of the Journal that had been dedicated to an athlete. I sent a copy to Nicklaus and he responded with a hand-written note that I treasure. Here's what I saw back then. Perhaps I will do another list in the near future. Thursday, July 14, 2005 05:07:29 AM
When MSNBC's chief political correspondent Lawrence O'Donnell broke the Karl Rove story on the July 4th weekend, for a few days it looked like it was going nowhere. O'Donnell had announced on NBC's McLaughlin Group that the President's alter-ego and chief political confidante was the source who had told Time's Matt Cooper that Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA agent, had sent him to Niger, where Wilson had served as U.S. Ambassador in the Clinton administration, to find out if Saddam Hussein really was in the market for uranium oxide, "yellowcake," which would certainly mean he was still trying to produce nuclear weapons. Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:57:17 AM
You may not realize it, Congressman, but the little comment you made to the Financial Times last week almost surely contributed to the big rally on Wall Street last Friday, a rally that is continuing today. The FT reported Friday morning on your speech in London: "One of the architects of the controversial US Sarbanes-Oxley legislation aimed at cleaning up corporate America admitted yesterday that some of the reforms were 'excessive' and could have been introduced more 'responsibly.'" Sunday, July 10, 2005 08:32:18 AM
President Bush and his partners at the Gleneagles, Scotland, G-8 Summit are mighty proud of themselves for the headlines they made by agreeing to a $50 billion aid package for impoverished Africa. But as far as I can tell from the meager details coming from the summit, it is a replay of the same old foreign-aid racket that our distinguished heads of state have been playing with sub-Sahara Africa for the last four decades. Unless I am surprised when the fine print is reported, it looks like the funds will be spread over several years, will go to the creditor banks, will be offset by reductions in other aid funds, and will be picked up by G-8 taxpayers. Thursday, July 07, 2005 03:59:59 PM
For all my criticism of the Bush administration over the war in Iraq, I have to praise him mightily for refusing to buckle to British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Global Warming. The President is meeting with the G-8 heads of state in Gleneagles, Scotland, where there will presumably more pressure on him to at least take a step toward the fiction that mankind is responsible for the slight climate change that has occurred since the end of the 19th century -- and that we have to shut down the world economy in order to cool it off. Tuesday, July 05, 2005 01:44:57 AM
Please be assured that if Saddam Hussein gets a fair trial when he is brought before an Iraqi court later this year, and is convicted of crimes against humanity, I would applaud his execution if it comes to that. As many of you know from my periodic e-mails, I have for years been disputing assertions made in the mass media in general and the Times in particular that Saddam is known to have gassed his own people, committing mass genocide. Monday, July 04, 2005 12:37:00 PM
The Gallup Poll last week reported that 46% of respondents said President Bush should be impeached if it could be shown he purposely misled the nation to war with Iraq. But unless living in a make-believe world is an impeachable offense, I don’t think that idea is going anywhere. Senator Chuck Hagel Tuesday, June 28, 2005 02:39:00 PM
From the dawn of civilization, the man of the house has been the protector of hearth and home from outside enemies; women were responsible for maintaining the household. Donald Rumsfeld, on the Sunday talk shows yesterday, clearly indicated he does not understand that the "insurgents" in Iraq are fighting and dieing, even willing to commit suicide if need be to protect hearth and home from the American invaders and occupiers. Rumsfeld still insists the suicide bombers are outside religious fanatics from Syria or Saudi Arabia and that Iraqis themselves wouldn’t blow themselves up. |
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