Let’s Make This Clear
Certain recent events indicate that Congress may finally be discovering the virtues of transparency. First, Rep. John Boehner has gotten the House of Representatives to …
Category: Reflections
Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better
Regarding the recent spate of school shootings: why is it that the media are (or pretend to be) the last to understand copycat crimes that …
Union Newspeak
Organized labor is pulling out all stops to win back Congress for the Democrats. And it has a nasty little surprise for us if its …
Study Herod, Madam, Study Herod
Perpetual protester Cindy Sheehan, who opposes preemptive war, has stated she has fantasized about going back in time and killing George W. Bush when he …
Fitter, Happier, More Productive
Capital- ists are often accused of placing profit over planet. If they do, it’s only because poverty is a much more certain killer than climate. …
Tapping the Tower of Babel
From the strategic point of view, I’m not totally opposed to government wiretapping in the United States, as the truth of terrorism is that the …
SOX it to the Government
In 2002, a period of high-profile corporate financial scandals, Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”), a no-nonsense law intended to crack down on bogus corporate …
What Next
On Oct. 2, The Wall Street Journal ran a scathing editorial taking the Republicans to task for failing to deliver on their promises: “The 109th …
Siding With Supply
The economic numbers that followed the Bush tax cuts of 2003 aren’t something that Democrat politicians are likely to talk much about prior to the …
IQ of Canines May be Overrated
Some- times the gullibility of American news dogs appalls me. In the wake of the arrests of putative Pakistani-Brit terrorists at Heathrow Airport, I heard …