AUSTIN, Texas -- Here's another to add to our growing list of needed corporate reforms. When some poor company -- caught in endless coils of red tape, strangled by mean government bureaucrats, its last gasp of entrepreneurial energy driven...
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        05 September 2002  
  
    
    
    
  AUSTIN, Texas -- Nothing like a lot of distracting saber-rattling to get you to take your eyes off the shell with the pea under it. Kind of like the prospect of being hanged in the morning, impending war does tend to concentrate the mind...
          05 September 2002  
  
    
    
    
  There's something pathetic -- and dangerous -- about the crush
 of liberal commentators now pinning their hopes on Colin Powell.
Yes, the secretary of state is a "moderate" -- compared to the likes of Dick Cheney and...
  Yes, the secretary of state is a "moderate" -- compared to the likes of Dick Cheney and...
        04 September 2002  
  
    
    
    
  AUSTIN, Texas -- Excuse me: I don't want to be tacky or anything, but hasn't it occurred to anyone in Washington that sending Vice President Dick Cheney out to champion an invasion of Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is a "murderous...
          30 August 2002  
  
    
    
    
  Labor Day may be a fitting tribute to America's workers. But what
 about the other 364 days of the year? Despite all the talk about the
 importance and dignity of working people, they get little power or
 glory in the everyday world of...
          29 August 2002  
  
    
    
    
  AUSTIN -- A new wrinkle in the annals of corporate scandal -- Salomon Smith Barney, the stock brokerage/investment banking firm, allocated almost a million shares of hot IPO (initial public offerings) shares in 21 different companies to...