Peddling Bullshit
Floyd Landis, the disgraced former Tour de France champion, made San Diego and nearby Temecula his home and training base for years. I live and …
Bastiat on the Bay
Warren Buffet opposes lower taxes on dividends and supports collectivist politicians. George Soros espouses all kinds of statist nonsense. Alan Greenspan, until retirement touted as …
A Statesman’s Legacy
This unbelievable paragraph appeared in the New York Times, online: “With his bushy beard and his booming anti-American rhetoric, Mr. Castro, who turns 80 next …
Where the Wild Things are Secretly Reintroduced
Before they got religiously green, the Western Europeans killed almost all their wolves and bears. What’s left of their wildlife is pretty timid. In America, …
Les Faux Nouveaux Soixantehuitards
In Paris and Nantes, a student revolt simmered for months, then boiled over in May of 1968. Students and activists of that generation became known …
The End of Soviet Poland
Dwarfing their chairs and stools in the broad hallways of the Polish Ministry of Finance sat fat old women with moustaches. Each of them edged …
Roman Virtues
In the summer of 1992 or 1993, while cycling in western Europe, I had the opportunity to read what Caesar wrote almost two millennia ago …