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The U.S. currently dominates the globe, but many Americans are uneasy about future competition from China. Much depends on getting U.S.-China policy "right." But Washington is operating from a position of strength and should engage China without fear. America should peacefully confront Beijing over economic and security issues. Moreover, the U.S. should push free trade throughout Asia, cooperate on China policy with friendly states, and put the American economy in order.

Well, the Democratic presidential candidates appear to be agreed on one thing: they will have to repeal President Bush’s tax cuts in 2010 to pay for their forays into government-run health care.

“Piddle twiddle and resolve, not one darn thing do we solve” said John Adams of Congress in the Broadway musical “1776”.

What if a state legislature decided it wanted to return some of the taxpayers’ hard-earned money? Hey, it could happen! What could the legislature do? Tax Freedom Day? Cutting the sales or income tax? A property tax cut? And where might legislators find some savings? How about passing school choice legislation.

Thailand has decided to “compulsory license” the AIDS drug Kaletra, made by the pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories.

Uh-oh! In that never-ending saga of “Have Republicans learned the lesson of the 2006 elections?” the answer is apparently .

Most of our critical infrastructure in the United States is privately owned, such as the food distribution infrastructure.

Democrats are claiming they want to throw at least another $50 billion over five years at the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which comes up for reauthorization soon.

Rampant piracy is costing the software, movie and music industries (and thus the U.

Do we need a national Proposition 13? “Prop 13,” as it was known, was enacted in California in June 1978 — about 30 years ago.