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A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Second Amendment Foundation and others, including Vancouver-based gun store Sporting Systems, in response to the Legislature’s passage of a semi-automatic weapon

Ideas Still Have Consequences

More than 20 years ago, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan triggered a world-wide revolution by dramatically slashing marginal income tax rates. In addition to rejuvenating the U.K. and U.S. economies, these supply-side tax cuts prodded other nations into implementing similar reforms. Thanks to "tax competition" between nations, top tax rates in developed nations -- on average -- are nearly 20 points lower today than they were in the 1970s.

Student filmmakers at UCLA were told not to identify their institution in a project about a 1991 campus demonstration, vexing the students and raising concerns about academic freedom. Chris Walsh was a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991, when the world watched U.S. bombers litter Baghdad with a constellation of explosions during the first Persian Gulf War. Soon after, he joined thousands of other UCLA students and faculty in a massive antiwar demonstration.

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In principle, I'm pleased that so many lawmakers seem to realize the importance of reducing taxes. But in practice, not all cuts are the same. Some do virtually nothing to encourage people to work, save and invest more -- which is exactly what we need to get our economy moving again.

OLYMPIA — Washington lawmakers are citing last week's massacre of six people at a Nashville, Tenn., parochial school as further justification for passing a sweeping package of new gun restriction

Tax Cuts: Now More Than Ever

Demonstrators gathered outside the Bahamian Consulate General in Miami last week to protest and raise awareness about what they say are government violations of their rights on the island nation.

ED051603: Tax Unfairness