Face Off
George W. Bush was famous for his infectious grin — it made the Left sick. Sometime during his first term it became the smirk that …
Obstacle Course
Ultra marathons are endurance- defying races of 50 or 100 miles. One of the toughest and most (in)famous of these races starts in Death Valley …
Take no Prisoners
Ever since its inception, utopian socialist ideology has included calls for the elimination of prisons. Many of the early idealists, such as the Ukrainean left-anarchist …
Inside The Castro Family
Family ties weave an intricate net, tattered and gaping in places, strong and tight in others. Attempts to explain the psychology of Fidel Castro usually …
Venezuela’s Got Talent
On May 29 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez declared a marathon edition of his weekly TV talk show, “Alo Presidente” (“Hello President”), to celebrate its 10th …
Start the Presses!
Before the mid-1800s, the inability to pay one’s debts could land one in prison. For the next century, bankruptcy laws progressively tended to favor the …
Mr. Obama, Tear that Embargo Down!
Back in 1980, as a response to the United States’ continued appeal to Fidel Castro to tear down Cuba’s sugar cane curtain, and to our …
Voluntary Requirement
As founding treasurer and director of American International Group, my father is turning over in his grave at the shenanigans of AIG’s finance arm and …
Turtle Power
My wife and I are avid technical rock climbers. Our favorite cragging area is Red Rocks Recreation Area, a BLM park outside Las Vegas, Nevada. …
Federal Bureaucracy Causes Insanity
The September issue of Scientific American reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s”failed rebuilding after Katrina [has] set off a mental health crisis in the …