Category: Reflections

Among the current administration’s many alarming big-government initiatives is universal healthcare. There are many arguments, both familiar and meritorious, against the government’s taking over the …

President Obama promises that his healthcare plan will be efficient and save money. Exactly what in his past gives anyone the assurance that this is …

One of the opinion journals I most love to read is the plucky City Journal, published quarterly by a center-right thinktank called the Manhattan Institute. …

The radio talk show host Mancow now concedes that waterboarding is indeed torture. He had been trying to prove otherwise. ”It is way worse than …

Since I have reported quite often in these pages about the many government pension and health benefit liabilities this country faces, it is always a …

Did you ever see such a festival of bad logic as the one that has consistently attended the gay marriage debate? Each side maintains that …

I read a short news report in The Wall Street Journal (May 21) that simply amazed me. It announced that Obama has officially endorsed a …

Have you ever argued with any people on the public payroll? I vaguely recall something that Mencken wrote, appropriate to the situation. I cannot find …

During the campaign Barack Obama at least implied that he wouldn’t indulge in the age-old practice of giving cushy ambassadorial posts to big campaign donors. …

In April Rasmussen Reports noted: “Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.” Rasmussen’s national telephone survey found that 20% prefer socialism. …