For the second time in his long career, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Peter Arnett has slipped over to the wrong side of the story. In giving an interview to Iraqi television in which he stated a number of his opinions, Arnett committed the unpardonable sin of becoming the news instead of reporting it. More

Most columns build up to a bottom line. This one starts with it: We can't afford a war and another giant tax cut, too. The charade starts, of course, with President Bush, who is trying to sell the country his own version of what Lyndon Johnson called "guns and butter," and what his father later ridiculed as "voodoo economics." More

Instant television coverage of the war with Iraq is whipsawing both American public opinion and the stock market with each new, sometimes disjointed revelation. More

The March 10 issue of Human Events carried a special report on the 10 most outrageous government programs. Their 18 judges included conservative/libertarians such as former Rep. Dick Armey (R-Texas), former Delaware Gov. Pete Dupont, Mark Levin, president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, and David Boaz, Cato Institute's vice president. More

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I woke up this morning to hear Today host Katie Couric explain to her millions of viewers that Pentagon officials had terribly "miscalculated" in their plan to topple Saddam Hussein. More

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For years now, political reformers have been railing against the unseemly practice of former government officials pouring through Washington's golden revolving door only to return a short time later as well-paid lobbyists, auctioning off their influence. More

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Americans flipping channels last Sunday night between war coverage and the Oscars were treated to a rare instance of defining clarity. While Hollywood displayed its paler feathers on ABC, a series of POWs from the first Gulf War appeared on the all-news channels to tell of their experiences while captives of the Iraqi military in 1991. More