#politically dissident

George W. Bush: neither compassionate nor conservative. Discuss. This column argues his thirty-percent steel tariff is a bailout that raises prices.

A 2001 column reprinted: Alabama’s proration fight threatened football and band to sell tax hikes. Booster clubs, trust funds, lotteries, and property tax.

Want to pay more taxes? Alabama now has a fund for that. This column covers the Tax Me More PAC, the Shays-Meehan issue-ad ban, and concealed carry.

Let’s flagellate a deceased equine. A libertarian defense of Exponent columnist Sarah Babin: the non-aggression principle and tolerating offensive views.

Vermont is cold but free. This column looks at its opt-in financial privacy law, the insurance industry’s lawsuit against it, and permitless concealed carry.

Will Enron be Bush’s Whitewater? This column weighs the campaign cash, White House access, and Cheney’s task force against the Clinton record.

Alabama’s proration fight threatened football and band to sell tax hikes. This column covers booster clubs, raided trust funds, and a state lottery.

Soviet socialism in our former commercial republic is frightening. This column calls the HealthSouth case against Scrushy a witch hunt fed by regulation.

Calls for America to mediate in Israel ignore what intervention already caused. Washington’s Farewell Address against entangling alliances, applied.