Category: Reflections

On Jan. 1 of this year, the very first baby boomer- Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, the first baby born on Jan. 1, 1946 – turned 62 and …

A loathsome story out of Greenburgh, N.Y., where the property taxes have risen so high that elderly widows on fixed incomes can no longer afford …

Last Nov. 30, on the 14th anniversary of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law concerning gays in the military, 28 retired generals and admirals released …

In a recent letter to The Wall Street Journal, a planning professor at Ohio State University blamed urban sprawl for the demise of the after- …

Early in November, the Bolivian government announced a plan to achieve “food sovereignty.” In order to eliminate agricultural imports, the Morales administration will now spend …

Warren Buffett, a man fattened by the virtues of capitalism, told the Congress recently that he favored the estate tax, which for the next couple …

A recent article on cancer myths, distributed online by Johns Hopkins and flagged by Yahoo as a Number 1 story, bewails the fact that 390/0 …

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 …