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Prudence and prevention will best address the HIV/AIDS pandemic
The global community must ask whether it is just and prudent to risk the development of drug-resistant strains of the virus, especially given current conditions that could make drugs less likely to be effective on those who are currently suffering from HIV/AIDS.Health care: Let's put patients' right to choose ahead of their right to sue
The Senate seems to be focused on helping patients sue their health plans rather than on enabling patients to choose them.The scandal of our Declaration of Independence
The Declaration and other documents from the period make one thing clear: Our Founding Fathers were not religion-phobic.Free-market morals and the Microsoft case
Only 12 percent of Americans wanted to see Microsoft broken up. When the poll is constrained to include only computer users, support for Microsoft increases. In other words, it was not the public that inspired the push to break up Microsoft.Free economy farming
As the legislative priorities of the 107th Congress become clearer, some things around Washington appear to be in for a change while others will stay the same. Tax forms will look different next year; new campaign finance laws might be enacted; social security may be tweaked. One segment of federal policy that appears to be immune to substantial reform, though, is agricultural subsidies. Since the Freedom to Farm Act of 1996—an initiative intended to reduce subsidy dependence—the dollar amount of federal payments to farmers has increased fourfold.Tax credits and the virtue of volunteerism
A volunteer credit could lead more firms and private professionals to offer their needed expertise to a variety of charitable organizations.The religious rapture of shortage
This is not the first time that we have imagined an energy shortage.Transforming the culture of fatherlessness
It is incumbent upon countries of the West experiencing crises of fatherhood to rethink their attachment to the welfare state.The moral trappings of the short term fix
By seeking to secure long-term profits for the good of their companies, CEOs can more adequately represent how the profit motives of their businesses contribute to the betterment of society, thus fulfilling the dominion mandate of Genesis.Is environmental justice tyranny?
As black business leader John Meredith says, "Over-regulation is being perpetrated in the name of ‘saving’ the environment. Real environmental justice would stop people from abusing our minority communities."Can the rich West help the Third World?
When people are living at the barest level of survival, environmental quality and working standards are not, and should not be, the highest priority.Giving credit where credit is due
Strengthening civil society is the main ingredient to winning the War on Poverty.