Category: Reflections

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 …

“The hallmark of sanity is to remain firmly tethered to reality,” said the federal judge to the parties of a patent infringement litigation between a …

Holiday time off from work and academic study gave me a chance to put a dent in my non-law, non-dissertation book pile. One book I …

In the vicious terrorist attack at Fort Hood by an Islamist traitor, we see the natural consequence of one of Bill Clinton’s bad policies. Indeed, …

Near the end of 2009, the Chronicle Review, the leftwing sidekick to the Chronicle of Higher Education, published a special issue, “Journalism in Crisis.” Such …

The great surprise in the recent New York City mayoral election was that Michael Bloomberg, the incumbent, nearly lost to himself. This wasn’t expected, as …

I’ve heard people say that the only way to achieve a truly free society is to let things get so bad that they finally get …

The Bureau of Economic Analysis web- site defines “disposable income” as “total personal income minus personal current taxes.” As of this writing, both the Senate …