Category: Reflections

The death of the Rocky Mountain News and the print version of the Seattle PostIntelligencer have led to lots of handwringing about the future of …

Our government is turning us all into guilt-ridden idiots. Can anyone truly believe that the way we are going to come out of this recession …

Yet more scandals have surfaced about Democrats in Congress – you remember, the ones who ran on the solemn pledge to clean up corruption? And …

As the Democrats continue their long march through our institutions, aiming to turn this country irreversibly Left, more news comes out. In a story that …

I can’t remember where I picked up this metaphor, though I’m quite sure I didn’t invent it: the free market as a natural ecology, totalitarian …

For years Warren Buffett was, by most reckonings, the richest man in the United States. And for years, as if to confound his fans and …

In the March edition of Liberty, I compared the Republican margin in the Senate, the one that denied the Democrats a supermajority, to the 18th-century …

The Obama administration’s talk of transferring oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau from the Department of Commerce to the White House staff turned over a …

February 6, 1788; James Madison publishes “The Federalist” No. 51: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, …

At his March 25 press conference, President Obama answered questions about his plan to drop the charitable deduction of the top 5% of income earners …