Category: Reflections

Waterboarding is back in the news. Whether for or against, Cheney, Pelosi, and Obama have all been struggling to find the proper spin for decisions …

You’ve no doubt seen the public service announcement on television that states that in America one person out of eight is currently going hungry. A …

President Obama made the derisive comment, “If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality healthcare, if they tell us that they’re offering …

A recent story in the L.A. Times caught my attention, because it addresses an issue I have written a good deal about and it has …

In the tax reform debate, those who favor the flat tax have a decisive advantage: many countries now actually have flat tax systems, and we …

The first black president remains popular despite dubious economic policies, while the first black governor in New York state is unpopular, notwithstanding his more responsible …

In a recent exhaustive interview “In Depth” on C-SPAN, Bill Ayres introduced a category, new to me, of “descendants of enslaved peoples” deserving special consideration. …

In a recent article for Reason (“Putting Stars Behind Bars,” April), William Anderson and Candice Jackson make note of federal prosecutors’ increased proclivity to criminalize …

On an operational level, the Obama administration is practically indistinguishable from the immediately previous Bush administration, which was pretty mendacious. To paraphrase The Who’s Pete …

President Obama has made a fetish of promising gazillions of “green jobs,” that is, new jobs that will supposedly flow from his environmentalist program. He …