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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Fidel Castro: Requiescat in Limbo
Reports of Castro’s timely demise are only partially exag- gerated. The Miami rumor mill has been so flooded with reports of his death kept secret …
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 …
Power to the People
If government controls most of the wealth in a country, it is in the self-interest of the citizenry to kowtow to the government. If private …
The Opiate of Almost Everyone
Every day brings reminders of the importance of religion. The war on terrorism pits the United States against an adversary that grounds its doctrines – …