Category: Reflections

A newscaster just informed me that “the market” was up yesterday. This man was quite chipper, presumably because “the market” has been plummeting for months. …

An article in the Daily Breeze, a suburban Los Angeles newspaper, reports that Francisco Linares is going to jail because he repaired a fence belonging …

The day before Super Tuesday economist Paul Krugman dropped a bomb on the Obama campaign. Obama’s health care plan, which would cover about half the …

Many postmortems of Super Tuesday are citing Ron Paul’s weak showing as proof that Americans are “not ready for libertarianism.” Others are blaming the media …

Whatever you think of Mike Huckabee’s campaign for president (and I don’t think very much of it), it has had one remarkable feature: his TV …

The boneheaded economic stimulus package authored by the president and forwarded by the Democratic Congress aims to push the federal government deeper into debt in …

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 …