Giving Ronald Reagan His Due
Scrapbook Giving Ronald Reagan His Due The celebrations last week marking the tenth anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s collapse were marred by what seemed at times a willful refusal to...
...Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall...
...Public opinion, by the way, is with Forbes...
...The Constitution originally permitted Congress to impose direct taxes only in proportion to each state’s population...
...It was a feat of high statesmanship much derided at the time, even reviled as warmongering in many quarters...
...The Xiaoshan-based Wanxiang Group, which produces industrial bearings, wanted Prescott Bush to help expand its business in the United States, company spokesman Cheng Jie said yesterday...
...Israeli Minister for International Relations Shimon Peres said Clinton had described how he asked Ambassador to Norway David Hermelin to see if he could find the former contact, the paper said...
...THE SCRAPBOOK suspects that The Donald’s wealth is exaggerated...
...policy towards China...
...But intuition had nothing to do with it...
...But surely he can still afford to employ a constitutional lawyer...
...For it cannot withstand faith...
...Ronald Reagan by intuition and Mikhail Gorbachev by logic set the dissolution on course...
...We welcome change and openness, for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace...
...Scrapbook Giving Ronald Reagan His Due The celebrations last week marking the tenth anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s collapse were marred by what seemed at times a willful refusal to give Ronald Reagan proper credit for his contribution to the triumph of freedom in Europe...
...The wall cannot withstand freedom...
...Trumping the Constitution Not that it was going anywhere, but Donald Trump’s much-buzzedabout plan to impose a 14.25 percent wealth tax is probably unconstitutional...
...The rhetorical high point of his campaign came in Berlin, before the Brandenburg Gate, on June 12, 1987...
...Bush had not been given specific responsibilities and would be paid according to his contribution, said Mr...
...Throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan offered a sustained and ultimately successful political argument against Communist tyranny...
...U.S...
...Do you really need it now?’ Zhu, dismayed but unwilling to be a supplicant, said he didn’t...
...Now the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be coming to understand the importance of freedom...
...It cannot withstand truth...
...Wealth cannot...
...He doesn’t have set responsibilities...
...diplomats ‘turned Oslo upside down’ to find the woman Clinton had not been able to forget since touring Europe as a student 30 years ago...
...Great Moments in Clintonian Diplomacy As reported by the Washington Post’s Steven Mufson and Robert G. Kaiser: “Clinton put his arm around the considerably smaller [Chinese premier Zhu Rongji], according to a Chinese diplomat’s account, and told him: ‘If you really need this now, we can do it [welcome China into the World Trade Organization...
...president George Bush has been hired as a consultant by a company in Zhejiang province...
...Bush vs...
...Freedom is the victor...
...Gorbachev, open this gate...
...Here, then, is how he prophetically concluded his famous 1987 speech: “As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner, ‘This wall will fall...
...When they found her, she thought hard and said: ‘Clinton...
...President Bill Clinton tried to look up an old girlfriend this week while visiting Oslo for the Mideast summit, the Israeli tabloid Yedioth Ahronoth claimed Friday...
...Read that again: Incomes may be taxed without apportionment...
...That’s why the income tax was declared unconstitutional in 1895...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall...
...Mr...
...It conferred on Congress the power “to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States and without regard to any census or enumeration...
...Forbes on China George W. Bush is giving a major foreign policy address at the Reagan Library on Friday, Nov...
...The Scrapbook looks forward to his thoughts on U.S...
...More Great Moments in Clintonian Diplomacy As reported by the German press agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur: “U.S...
...Ronald Reagan, who was obviously unable to be there, deserved better than to be the ghost at the banquet...
...Even though he may not be involved in the same field as we are, he can go to his friends for help in resolving our issues.’” Coincidentally, Steve Forbes gave the best speech of his campaign at the Nixon Library last Friday, precisely on the need to take a firmer stance in talks with Beijing...
...I don’t recall ever meeting someone of that name,’ Yedioth reported...
...If he plans on sounding tough, he may want to alert Uncle Prescott before he signs too many embarrassing consulting deals with Chinese companies...
...Bush because of his wide connections...
...Before Congress rubber stamps a trade deal with China, it may want to ponder the latest Reuters poll, showing two-thirds of Americans opposing freer trade with China unless Beijing improves its human rights record...
...The company hired Mr...
...There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace...
...Cheng said: ‘He has many friends...
...Cheng...
...We need to begin using the economic and diplomatic tools at our disposal to effect real change in China,” said Forbes: “tough sanctions on Chinese military-owned companies, tough sanctions on Chinese companies using slave labor, tough sanctions on Chinese companies trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, and continuous, high-profile condemnations of Chinese human rights abuses...
...When we need his help, we will contact him...
...As the South China Morning Post reported last week, “The brother of former U.S...
...Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace...
...A Washington Post editorial, written in an oddly dispirited and passive voice, was sadly typical: “The American side,” said the Post, by way of explaining our historic victory in the Cold War, “had come to be widely seen as a society of values honorable and serviceable for challenge...
...The official festivities in Berlin last week consisted mainly of effusions of gratitude to Mikhail Gorbachev from former president George Bush and former chancellor Helmut Kohl, for Gorbachev’s having refrained from ordering a massacre as the Wall fell...
...The Sixteenth Amendment in 1913 changed all that...
...We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness...
...General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here, to this gate...
...Here is part of what he said that day: “After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity...
...It’s hard for me to do it now, it’s a bad time politically, but if you really need it, we can do it...
Vol. 5 • November 1999 • No. 10
