Category: Reflections

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. …

Congressman Eric Cantor, one of the rising stars in the Republican Party, seems to think that the way to reinvigorate the Republican Party is to …

There’s not much question that North Korea, as headed by Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, is a reckless and irresponsible regime whose abuse of its own …

It never fails. Whenever I attend a political gathering – such as the ever-delightful FreedomFest – I am approached by someone pitching a third political …

I listen to the Sunday talk shows and I never hear the journalists who interview major political figures ask either of two simple questions. They …