Recently, Mexican President Vicente Fox did what President Bush would like to do if it wasn’t for environmentalists and many members of the U.S. Congress. He climbed aboard a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico to announce a major new oil discovery that could yield as many as 10
With rising incomes, soaring wealth, bigger and better homes, plenty of jobs and low inflation, Americans may be living in the most prosperous time ever. Yet, many Americans are sold on the idea that these are the worst of times, says Investor’s Business Daily (IBD).
The economy is not perfect.
President Bush has proposed making health insurance in the U.S. individually-owned, personal and portable, travelling with employees from job to job. It is an idea whose time has come, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Centre for Policy Analysis.
Just because employers pay all or most of the premium
Canadians seeking health care continue to be plagued by long waits, according to a report from the Fraser Institute. The most recent edition of “Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists In Canada,” found the median wait from the time a patient was referred by a general practitioner until the time
Off Paris’s Boulevard Saint Germain, students from France’s most famous university faced police in riot gear. This generation’s bête noire is something called the “First Job Contract,” says the Wall Street Journal.
That’s legislation championed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and passed by the National Assembly last week in a
