Peter Kinder
OpinionDecember 30, 2001
GOP finds clout in its support of expanding tradeMore than a century ago, an old sage remarked that "Free trade, one of the greatest blessings that any nation's leaders can bestow on its people, is in nearly every country unpopular." This fascinating paradox plays itself out each and every year in our politics, a...OpinionDecember 23, 2001
Firefighter's obituary shows heroism of many AmericansLike you, I'm mindful of those innocent souls of Sept. 11, so many of them young people, for whom Christmas 2000 was their last. Ever since that date, The New York Times has been publishing obituaries of those who perished. Of course, as they are so numerous, few c...OpinionDecember 9, 2001
Gun rights after the terrorists; inside look at media biasState of gun rights in America: How goes the battle for gun rights since Sept. 11? Wall Street Journal columnist and former Delaware Gov. Pete DuPont, writing for the Journal's Web site, OpinionJournal.com, supplies the answer:...OpinionNovember 25, 2001
The dirty little secret about the tobacco lawyers"L'audace, l'audace -- toujours l'audace!" exclaimed George C. Scott, in his memorable role as the wartime Gen. George S. Patton, quoting the old German commander Frederick the Great. ("Audacity, audacity, always audacity!") While you were giving thanks to the almi...OpinionNovember 4, 2001
Sales-tax holiday after Thanksgiving would be big boostThis past legislative session saw this writer championing a measure called the sales-tax holiday bill. A concept that has worked well in six other states (including Texas and Florida, where the governors Bush signed it into law) plus New York City, sales-tax holida...OpinionSeptember 30, 2001
The breathtaking audacity of the governor's orderA priceless moment in the great war movie "Patton" occurs as George C. Scott, playing that great combatant, celebrates a conquest over wily foe Erwin Rommel, Germany's "Desert Fox." (No, I don't mean the scene where, having routed the German commander's tanks, he c...OpinionSeptember 24, 2001
President delivers 'greatest speech'It is, said New York Post columnist John Podhoretz, "the greatest speech of our time." And it was delivered "by a man who many ... once mindlessly and pompously derided for his halting style of speech. "No more. Not ever. "Not when George W. Bush has just joined th...OpinionAugust 26, 2001
UNIONS TAKE THEIR BEST SHOTS AFTER E-MAIL WARNING IS SENTA lamentable trend in American politics these last 15 years or so is what some writers have called "the criminalization of politics." In some quarters, it seems, it isn't enough to disagree with your opponents, nor even to defeat them in free and open debate or at ...OpinionAugust 19, 2001
ST. LOUIS RELIGIOUS LEADERS ANNOUNCE MAGNET SCHOOLSHere are excerpts from a statement scheduled to be delivered this afternoon in St. Louis by Tim Daniels, director of the soon-to-open St. Louis Academies. I have been working since last winter with a group of African American church leaders and activists, of which ...OpinionAugust 12, 2001
BUSH'S SPEECH ON STEM-CELL RESEARCH IS EVEN-HANDED MODELWith the arguments so compelling on both sides, one hesitates to pronounce with any finality on the contentious issue of federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. The careful citizen struggles to absorb as much information as possible from wide reading of p...Advertisement
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