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The Freedoms We Fight For
The unheralded Islamist assault on free speech.
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

 LAST MONTH, Islamic radicals threatened to kill actor and Muslim convert Omar Sharif. Sharif had recently played St. Peter in an Italian TV film and spoke highly of the role, saying that he "seemed to hear voices" during filming and that "it will be difficult for me to play other roles from now on." Although Sharif's comments seem innocuous, they prompted a death threat. According to the Adnkronos International news agency, a message on a web forum which has been used by al Qaeda in the past linked to another website that threatened Sharif's life. The website containing the threat said, "Omar Sharif has stated that he has embraced the crusader idolatry. He is a crusader who is offending Islam and Muslims and receiving applause from the Italian people. I give you this advice, brothers, you must kill him."

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  The skyrocketing cost of oil is sending pump prices soaring. But it's also subsidizing research into new technologies that can change the energy game. ...繼續閱讀

November 16, 2005, 8:44 a.m.
Do-It-Yourself Legislation
A legislative disease the GOP is far from immune to.

By Iain Murray

The aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita have proved a massive breeding ground for what former OECD Chief Economist David Henderson has termed "Do-it-Yourself Economics" (DIYE), which he defines as "firmly held intuitive economic ideas and beliefs which owe little or nothing to textbooks, treatises or the evidence of economic history." The DIYE phenomenon is not restricted to the general public. Henderson points out that DIYE ideas are "sincerely held, and voiced with conviction, by political figures, top civil servants, CEOs, [labor unionists], well-known journalists and commentators, religious leaders, senior judges and eminent professors." Sadly, these ideas might do real harm to the U.S. economy.

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 Nov 10th 2005
From The Economist print edition

One market, one profit, 25 taxmen

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Japan is Back, For Real This Time
October 2005

by Jesper Koll

Japan is back as a high-growth economy. A combination of positive cyclical forces and structural changes suggests that an upgrade to the short- and medium- term outlook for the country is in order. Over the next five to 10 years, the Japanese economy’s growth potential is poised to be close to 2.5% —much higher than the 1% to 1.5% estimates commonly proffered by economists. This paves the way for the Japanese economy to become an even more powerful engine of prosperity for Asia.

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