Category: Reflections

One of the great medical breakthroughs of the last couple of decades is the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea. For some people, like me, …

A friend and I are going out to dinner. I pick him up at his apartment house. On entering, I can’t help noticing a large …

A story in The Wall Street Journal (Jan. 6) reveals yet another lie by President Obama, a.k.a. “Tricky Barry.” During the campaign, when oil prices …

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 …

It was a rotten year, politically speaking. It didn’t start out so badly; I was not unhappy about Obama’s election. The Republicans had abandoned all …