Category: Reflections

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 …

A solution to the plague of piracy in the Indian Ocean off Somalia has so far eluded the world community. The rescue of Captain Richard …

Someday soon, let’s hope, corporate goniffs will discover that they can’t raise prices without risking failure, serious failure. Just as American auto- makers lost their …

As the stock market plummeted below the 7,000 mark, reporters asked President Obama what he thought of the way the market was responding to his …

I have up until now been stunned at the adulation that many people on the Right have given to Obama. They swoon at his intellect, …

Use of “incredible” or “incredibly” as a vogue word to mean “extreme” or “very” or even nothing at all is rampant. Much less familiar is …

Congressman Barney Frank, President Barack Obama, and other government officials are suddenly stunned, shocked, even outraged that AIG is spending millions of dollars on executive …

Being the son of an immigrant from Hungary, I can’t help but notice stories about that charming country with the notoriously difficult language. As it …

The flamboyant professor Ward Churchill, who taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder until he was fired in 2007, was the victor on April …

On March 16, former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary that he is planning to write a memoir “so when the history of this …