Category: Reflections

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

I have lived for 20 years in Santa Cruz, CA, one of the more reliable political time warps in America. I am a libertarian-leaning conservative, …

While visiting the United States in mid-Janua~Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qadir let it be known that Iraq will require a U.S. military presence for another …

If it is Hillary versus McCain in November, the door is open for an antiwar, small-government third-party candidate. Significant constituencies in both parties may be …

A race between McCain and Hillary in November can be compared to a showdown between a stern schoolmaster who preaches pain, sacrifice, and discipline and …

Common in business ethics textbooks are case studies of unethical practices by for-profit corporations. Needless to say, the crimes and misdemeanors of the likes of …

It is puzzling how seldom TV pundits expose the vacuity of “change” as a political platform. Everyone wants change of some sort or other, but …

By the time you read this, the shouting will most likely be over between Hillary and Obama, so this question won’t be of much more …

Amidst the grand hoopla that is the current election campaign, a recent report in the Financial Times of London (Jan. 11) went largely unnoticed in …

Hearing Dubya propose a “growth package” on January 18, I got the queasy feeling that he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. …