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Disingenuous Defense of Bush’s Fiscal Policy

The Luskin-Kudlow-Moore free-lunch supply-side crowd over at NRO have been trying to convince us that Bush’s fiscal train wreck will actually promote long-term growth. Their new ally is William Kucewicz…

MTP Panel and Capital Gang on the Iraq War

…expressed reservations. The founder of The National Review, William F. Buckley, has indicated some real concerns about the war in Iraq, Byron. MR. YORK: He has basically said that if…

Conservatives & Moderates: Vote Kerry! Vote Gridlock!

…Institute’s William Niskanen points out that since WW II, spending growth has been slower under divided government, and wars have been less common. The Bush administration certainly fits Niskanen’s theory!…

Reason #4 to Vote for Kerry: Budget Deficits

…the capital stock of the US, and thus reduce future income and living standards. Laurence Kotlikoff and William Gale provide a thorough survey of the evidence on this issue, and…

Bill Kristol Cannot Tell the Truth

I have yet to call anyone at the Weekly Standard a liar even though on occasion, I have been quite tempted. But William Kristol’s Holbrooke: I Don’t Know the Truth…

Reverse Rubinomics

…growth issues raised by William G. Gale and Samara R. Potter in An Economic Evaluation of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (ultimately published in National…

…different approaches in the interviews. In some cases, they have asked prominent local Christian figures to simply pass on any helpful information, activists said. William Ryan, a Christian attorney in…

…the Pentagon’s policy office, under the control of William Luti, a senior aide to Feith. This office, which circumvented the usual procedures of vetting and transparency, stovepiped many of its…