Gus Tyler
By Gus Tyler
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Opinion When Good News Is Bad News
Across the country, the value of homes has been on the rise. That’s the good news. As the worth of homes rises in value, so, too, do taxes. That’s the bad news. How does this all work out? Let’s consider today’s most dramatic case — namely California, the most populous state in the union. The…
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Opinion Comparative Disadvantage
In German, the word Volkswagen means “people’s wagon.” For many years, it was exactly that. It was a car aimed at serving popular needs, produced by a company that worked very closely with German autoworkers’ unions. However, despite its historic concern for consumers and workers, Volkswagen this month announced plans to cut some 20,000 jobs…
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Opinion A Nation of Immigrants
It was President Kennedy who said that America is “a nation of immigrants.” What else could it be? Unless you are a descendant of one of the native “Indian tribes,” you are either an immigrant or a descendant of an immigrant. Despite this obvious truth, immigration has been a perplexing problem in every generation. Repeatedly,…
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Opinion Patriots and Intruders
In the furious debate over the USA Patriot Act, frequent reference is made to the First Amendment of the Constitution. The president’s critics maintain that the Patriot Act’s intrusive practices, including wiretapping, monitoring library use and more, amount to limitations on our freedom of speech. Armed with these new tools, Uncle Sam becomes an Orwellian…
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Opinion We Are Responsible
Who is responsible for the New Orleans catastrophe? A one-word answer might well be “we.” The conclusion is based on the history of floods from Noah to New Orleans. Too often, in trying to explain the origin of natural phenomena, we are inclined to overlook the role of humans — individually or collectively — in…
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News How Long Will We Be in Iraq?
The latest news on how long the United States will continue to wage its war in Iraq is profoundly disturbing, because of both what it says and who is saying it. The speaker is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The essence of his statement was summarized recently in the newspapers when Rumsfeld said the insurgency…
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News Detainees’ Trail of Torture Leads to Egypt
In recent days, Egypt has distinguished itself as the country to which to send terrorist suspects. The reason? Egypt is outstanding in the brutality it uses to extort confessions from suspects. On May 12, The New York Times reported that “the United States and other countries have forcibly sent dozens of terrorist suspects to Egypt.”…
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News Why Is Medicaid Ailing?
Medicaid is a program that was introduced in 1965 as a piece of companion legislation to Medicare, which was effected the same year. Medicare and Medicaid were different in two important respects. First, Medicare was based on age — 65 or older. Medicaid was based on need. Second, the federal government ran Medicare directly; Medicaid…
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