Category: Reflections

I can’t get enough of John Edwards complaining about “Two Americas” from the porch of his mansion, bemoaning the shrinking middle class while getting a …

When, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton broke down and cried, I felt for her. Here is an intelligent and capable …

– Mandatory seat-belt laws are about public health – and maybe some other things. Consider a case from Washington state. In Everett, north of Seattle, …

One of the terrors of writing on the depredations of government is that of seeing one’s metaphors become flesh. When Lysander Spooner .wrote of the …

Jan. 1, 2008 is the 145th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in America. There has always been a historical debate over whether …

The president recently vetoed an SCHIP funding bill and the Democrats trotted out a “victim” to try to put a face on the issue. Twelve-year-old …

Several kinds of behavior fall into a pattern when we see them as examples of the delusion of competence. Political position, fame, celebrity, or supposed …

The parade of televised U.S. presidential debates is ridiculously long, especially so early in the process – before even the first primaries. With so many …

One of the magic solu- tions for global warming pushed by those of greenish hue is wind power. The greenies tout wind power as a …

Norman Mailer is dead at 84. Demosthenes, when told of the death of Alexander the Great, said it could not be – for else the …