Category: Reflections

Since President Obama appears to be committed to spending as much as it takes – on “jobs” bills, investments in “green industries,” and pork of …

Most of the government’s receipts come from taxes. Of these, the largest source of revenue is the personal income tax. And our progressive tax system …

Toyota is in the midst of a huge recall, aimed at correcting an accelerator pedal defect. So far, there has been a total of 2,000 …

The Copenhagen Summit ended without any substantial progress, for which I was as thankful as Tiger Woods at an IHOP. The president’s plan was to …

The U.S. Postal Service, the model for our future National Health .Care System, continues to make news. For the fiscal year ending September 30, the …

Late last year, The New Republic published a pep talk for progressives. It was by John B. Judis and was called “Anti-Statism in America.” Its …

Everyone is in an uproar because the United States Preventive Services Task Force – an “independent” committee of medical experts (with no breast surgeons and …

There has been much heat shed on the references in the East Anglia Climate Research Unit emails to “tricks” used in massaging temperature data, but …

Those who want to criminalize “insider trading” are looking at the market as a big lottery, where everybody should have the same chance to become …

The December 3 headline in the Guardian (UK) should have read, “Rich white people pay blacks not to have children.” Instead it declared, “Rich nations …