Category: Reflections

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 …

No, I’m not responsible for this terrible war. I don’t study foreign affaIrS, I don’t write about foreign affairs, and I didn’t recommend that we …

After many months of background maneuvering, the federal government has finally indicted baseball player Barry Bonds. Not for steroid use or for injecting himself with …

Well known fashion model Gisele Bundchen announced recently that she would no longer accept her day rate in U.S. dollars. Sounding like a currency trader, …

In a previous reflection, I noted that the environmentalists’ favorite fuel – ethanol – . has an unintended adverse consequence. It jacks up the price …

I was in a meeting with European journalists on a foundation-sponsored tour of the United States. It was a generally placid group until the subject …

Ed Henry has reported for CNN that, according to a soon-to-be-released book based on off-the-record talks, former President Gerald Ford thought that former President Bill …

According to the AFP: “Ten doctorate students from China’s elite universities are calling for a boycott of Christmas and urging people to revert to Chinese …