Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …

Moving from a small town in Montana to Raleigh, N.C., evoked some predictable reactions in me, such as shock at the traffic congestion and amazement …

Seattle progressives had long been concerned that bums had no place to go to the toilet, and were doing it in doorways and planting strips. …

The reigns of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine so far suggest a political truth most of us would be …

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 …

The good news out of Munich is that BMW has come up with something that could do a better job than the CIA at defunding …

Granted, the U.S. government has the right to decide who may and may not immigrate. But it certainly doesn’t seem to have the power to …

At first blush, the views advanced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and Lysander Spooner could not be more at odds. The leaders …