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When economists come across a tax that actually improves incentives, however, you can imagine how giddy they get. The most basic economic logic says that the benefits of such taxes are indisputable. But basic economic logic has never been Bush’s strong suit...
Sitting in a golden wheelchair and sporting a dark blue suit, Flynt spoke in support of the ACLU and first amendment rights...
Franken also commented on the recent lawsuit against his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The suit was initiated by Fox News Channel, who wanted “fair and balanced”—their trademark phrase—removed from the cover. The case was ultimately dismissed, and Franken said the presiding judge called the suit “wholly without merit, both legally and factually...
...international community has followed suit, deciding that constructive engagement with a regime as corrupt as the SPDC is pointless. Great Britain and the E.U. oppose tourism in Burma. President Bush recently signed into law the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act, which bans goods made in Burma from the U.S. market, freezes the overseas assets of senior SPDC officials and prevents the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank from issuing loans and grants for the regime. “By denying these rulers the hard currency they use to fund their repression,” the law states...
...democracy boycott of Burmese products, when it cancelled a million-dollar contract with PepsiCo, then operating in Burma. Harvard’s protest led not only to PepsiCo’s withdrawal from Burma, but the precedent it created also encouraged many major U.S.-owned corporations to follow suit. In light of Harvard’s previous support for democracy and human rights in Burma, it is astounding that HMNH—which has not responded to repeated e-mail requests on behalf of the Harvard Burma Action Movement to discuss this issue in person—is continuing...