Category: Reflections

Andrew Stern is the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). He’s a big supporter of Barack Obama. In early December, something was published …

The Associated Press has reported that Laredo, Texas, “home to nearly a quarter-mil- lion people as well as high rates of illiteracy … will become …

One of the myriad things I dislike about the crusade against global warming is that it ruins my favorite Mark Twain quotation: “Everyone talks about …

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 Obama White House stumbled this fall when it issued an ill-advised press release claiming that the $787 billion federal economic stimulus plan had “created …