Welcome to the first summer driving season with gasoline at $3.40 per gallon and up. Lawmakers have responded, predictably, by vowing to do something to bring prices down. Unfortunately, when Congress gets involved, prices usually go up. Take alternative fuels. Lawmakers love to tout their support for ethanol mandates, and farmers here in Illinois share their enthusiasm. But, in the big picture, ethanol is bad for Americans, farmers included.
As an alternative to the failed cut-and-paste solutions offered bydistant government bureaucracies, a "fraternal association of theEnglish-speaking peoples" (in the words of Winston Churchill) canlead the way in halting and then reversing socialism through theconcrete applications of conservative ideas, creating anirresistible momentum and expanding spheres of freedom in everycorner of the globe.
Our economy expanded 4.2 percent in the first quarter of the year. That follows 4.1 percent growth in the fourth quarter, and 8.2 percent growth in the quarter before that.
Just a year ago, Italian troops in Iraq were bleeding and dying.On Nov. 12, 2003, a truck crashed into the Italian headquarters in the southern city of Nasiriyah.