Jim Walsh

I recently visited an old friend who’s been through some trouble in his personal life: a death in his family and the death of his …

The cycle of hype-to-panic-to- retrenchment that followed the recent outbreak of swine flu was entirely predictable. Same with hurricanes, same with terrorism, same with shark …

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer has begun an attempt at reputational rehabilitation. His main device has been a series of columns spewing conventional wisdom …

Says Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao: “We have made a huge amount of loans to the United States. Of course, we are concerned about the safety …

For years Warren Buffett was, by most reckonings, the richest man in the United States. And for years, as if to confound his fans and …

The administration’s response to the current economic recession and the mainstream media’s coverage of the resulting statist schemes has degraded political rhetoric. During W. Bush’s …

The Obama administration’s talk of transferring oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau from the Department of Commerce to the White House staff turned over a …

The boneheaded economic stimulus package authored by the president and forwarded by the Democratic Congress aims to push the federal government deeper into debt in …

I was going to do a complete analysis of the rhetoric and political effects of conservative talk radio hosts and the three stooges – Limbaugh, …

Early January saw Clinton and McCain win their respective party primaries in New Hampshire; but a more important development for some libertarians came a few …