Category: Reflections

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 …

American President Bush and Peruvian President Alan Garcia have signed the free-trade agreement that Peru and the U.S. started negotiating back in 2003. The initial …

President Bush is rightly challenged for his bumbling rhetoric and undiagrammable syntax. But worse could follow. Consider Hillary Clinton, responding to her defeat in Iowa …

More and more states are refusing federal money for “abstinence-only” sex education programs. According to an article in the Dec. 16 Washington Post, no fewer …

Early January saw Clinton and McCain win their respective party primaries in New Hampshire; but a more important development for some libertarians came a few …

Presidential campaigning started much earlier than usual – not just several months or even a year before the election but a full 15 months. To …

Thirty seconds on Google at any time in the past several months would have revealed to any interested party the gist of James Kirchick’s Jan. …

How oft we see the law of unintended consequences bite statists in their butts. A recent illustration is the brouhaha about English-only requirements on the …