Category: Reflections

A recent article by Nancy Cleeland in the Los Angeles Times (Aug. 23), lachrymosely headlined “Rich, Poor Live Poles Apart in L.A. as Middle Class …

President Bush warned in his American Legion speech of August 31 and on other occasions that withdrawing from Iraq now would hand victory to America’s …

There is growing talk now about whether or not Sen. Hillary Clinton will run for the presidency in 2008. I have one question about this. …

In a press conference held after the Sept. 8 capture of suspected cop-killer Ralph “Buck” Phillips, New York State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett emphasized that …

We are used to encountering garbage that is labeled “news,” but sometimes even the hardened troller for information is astonished by the smell. On August …

Paul Samuelson, strong Keynesian, 1970 Nobel Prize Laureate in economics, and author of the enormously successful college textbook, “Economics,” was right, once. Commenting in 1970 …

One theme of Ron Randosh’s “Red Star Over Hollywood” (Encounter, 2005), among other recent books, is that scribbling warriors in the Communist-inspired Popular Front of …

Now that Fidel Castro has ceded power to his younger brother Raul, we realize the tragedy that he never got to write his memoirs about …

Perhaps I’m a dreamer, but I believe that the obvious merits of free choice in K-12 education (often labeled”vouchers”) will eventually defeat the anti-choice propaganda …

Sen. Ted Kennedy shepherded the Big Dig, Boston’s multi-billion dollar boondoggle, through Congress. Now that Kennedy boondoggle has killed a woman in a car. Gee, …