Category: Reflections

On June 26, Iran, the world’s fourth-largest producer of oil, announced that it will have to start rationing gas.

Toallbishops of the Roman Catholic Church, country-club conservatives, Democratic Party activists, and libertarian political fundamentalists: Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m sorry to interrupt the celebration you’re …

First it was Teddy, now his son Patrick … clearly, we should view the Kennedys’ use of chauffeured limousines not as a perk, but as …

The Bushian short-sighted miscalculation has been tax cuts favoring the rich while running up deficits that will eventually need to be paid off not by …

So I was walking out of one of my consulting gigs today and I noticed some fat cat had not picked up his copy of …

The new Iraqi government faces a formidable task – to create a unified “nation” out of a state containing three disparate and widely divergent groups. …

On April 17th, Jesse Jackson was interviewed on CNN about the Duke lacrosse rape case. He claimed the case demonstrated the classic white male fantasy …

When the public school authority in my city discovered that water in some of the school drinking fountains contained from 11 to 18 parts per …

Lots of people are mad at Wal-Mart. The AFL-CIO charges that Wal-Mart is using its lobbying power to derail security improvements at U.s. ports. “Wal- …

I’ve written before that elements within the American government have sometimes defused a threatening minority by legally prosecuting unto death advocates who mayor may not …