Category: Reflections

Before the mid-1800s, the inability to pay one’s debts could land one in prison. For the next century, bankruptcy laws progressively tended to favor the …

I am ceaselessly amazed at the reverence people in this country have for the Constitution. Most haven’t read it. Most who have read it don’t …

George Will recently accused Obama’s token Republican, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, of being the “Secretary of Behavior Modification.” Rather than making our transportation systems …

Despite its having been instituted back in the summer of 2005, New York City’s policy of permitting the police to rifle through any would-be subway …

I recently finished reading Albert Jay Nock’s “Our Enemy, the State” (1935). I can think of few works so appropriate for navigating what’s currently going …

I have enjoyed many an hour reading newspapers, but I have also been enormously frustrated over the years. I don’t wish to malign the professionalism …

It’s amazing how close Marx came to getting it right: “There is a Specter haunting Congress …”

As our country continues in its government-induced recession, we would do well to reflect on China’s continuing economic success. China has passed some important milestones …

You have to hand it to Obama – he is nearly as bold as Nixon when it comes to using presidential power against his real …

I’m frustrated by President Obama’s takeover of General Motors. Not for the obvious reasons, either. I’ve long argued against state mandates for health insurance. One …