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June 23, 2002
R21 Week in Review 6.23.02
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THE CORPULENT CLASS
First, in case you missed it on the McLaughlin Group this weekend, Southwest has a shocking new business strategy: “We sell seats, and if you consume more than one seat, you have to buy more than one seat,” according to Southwest Spokeswoman Beth Harbin. Sounds devilishly clever, but is it discriminatory against people of size? “If the person takes up more than one seat, that’s not the problem of the person, that’s the problem of the seat,” counters Miriam Berg, President, Council on Size & Weight Discrimination. Seats are getting narrower, plump protestors pronounce, in a brazen, calculated attempt by greedy airlines to squeeze, financially and otherwise, their clientele. Will personal responsibility ever come back into fashion in this country? Fat chance.
BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY, & POLICY
High-tech—A look back at the embattled telecom industry…
(Telecom woes—time for Darwin?)
a look forward at new wireless technologies…
(3G, 4G & 5G wireless technologies)
and an ominous look at the Justice Department & FTC’s probes into chip companies.
(Anti-trust: Chips & Chickens)
Biotech—genetically engineered food is nothing to worry about…
(GMF: Brave Old World)
but herbal supplements are.
(Free market can regulate herbal supplements)
Symbiotic—Napster was good for the music industry…
(File-sharing sells music)
and wireless networks will be good for broadband.
(Wireless networks the next Napster?)
Quixotic—NPR stands up to blogs…
(Can NPR deep six deep linking?)
while North Dakota stands up to spam.
(North Dakotans opt to opt-in)
SCIENCE
An audacious new idea about the very nature of science…
(The NEW secret of the universe)
and a thorough repudiation of those who have the audacity to deny evolution.
(Facts v. Fiction)
BIG GOVERNMENT
The US is increasingly dependent on government…
(Capitalism v. Dependency)
yet a conservative argues for MORE subsidies!
(In support of railroad subsidies?)
Social security is fatally flawed…
(The real problem with Social Security)
so let’s get on with it, rather than playing politics.
(Krugman passes math, flunks poli sci)
ECONOMICS
Cheers for self-interest…
(The good of self-interest)
and Reaganomics.
(Supply-side columns)
Jeers for estate taxes.
(Estate taxes are immoral—and unpopular)
WAR ON TERROR
Reality looking forward: The Iron Lady urges an iron will…
(Thatcher & Bartley on rising to the challenge)
and while the Democrats rally to oppose Saddam…
(Democrats support removing Hussein)
will they oppose the trial lawyers?
(Tort v. Terror)
Fantasy looking back: Clinton spins his record on terrorism…
(Clinton spin: alive and well)
and the new anti-war movement gets old.
(New war, old indignation)
CIVIL LIBERTIES & THE COSTITUTION
What are the limits on speech…
(Sowell on Speech)
the press…
(Press guilty of treason?)
and search and seizures?
(Fourth Amendment vs. Catching Terrorists)
If you put the Guantanamo Bay terrorist prison outside of Kabul it would be their Epcot…
(Dennis Miller v. ACLU)
EDUCATION
Diversity in education exists in everything but thought…
(The academic monolith)
can the think tanks do anything about it?
(Think tanks v. universities)
Liberal praise for Brown from a conservative.
(Jerry Brown--making a difference)
WATERGATE
Pat Buchanan not only refutes the speculation that he was Deep Throat, but denies that Deep Throat even exists (instead theorizing that it was a journalistic fabrication—a composite of various sources.) The media conspiracy, however, is alive and well…
(Buchanan on Watergate--more than meets the eye?)
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