Category: Reflections

Another year has passed, and I have enlarged my carbon footprint by attending the 2007 edition of the Annual Conference of the Libertarian Alliance, in …

Can anyone explain the linger- ing campaign of former Sen. John Edwards? A less-apt candidate for the U.s. presidency would be hard to find. He’s …

The September issue of Scientific American reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s”failed rebuilding after Katrina [has] set off a mental health crisis in the …

You have to give some grudging admiration to the teachers’ unions: in the cause of single-minded, unscrupulous protection of their turf, they will do whatever …

The AP release out of London, headlined on AOL News Oct. 29, says it all: “Schwarzenegger Calls Pot ‘Leaf,’ Not Drug.” The story did not …

Reports of Castro’s timely demise are only partially exag- gerated. The Miami rumor mill has been so flooded with reports of his death kept secret …

After John Kerry embarrassed himself with a crack about the soldiers in Iraq, many remembered how grateful they were the day he lost his bid …

The Wall Street Journal (Nov. 11) reports that there are more Asian students on our college campuses than are warranted by the percentage of Asians …

Despite an instinctive skepticism about all official explanations and reports, I don’t believe a word of the extravagant 9/11 conspiracy theories currently breeding and mutating …

I didn’t track this scientifically but it seems that George Bush has taken far less vacation time in 2006 than in, say, 2001. I wonder …