Category: Reflections

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 …

If government controls most of the wealth in a country, it is in the self-interest of the citizenry to kowtow to the government. If private …

Chicago-based Boeing, challenged by Europe’s Airbus to produce a new plane to carry more passen- gers at lower prices, is planning a sleek new 787 …

According to a Wall Street Journal editorial (April 1), the court’s opinion on Hamdan v. Rumsfield, due in late June, as to whether or not …

A coyote was spotted in Central Park in Manhattan in late March, loping through the mini-wilderness of Hallet Sanctuary, a wooded island at the south …

There is a tendency among libertarians to deny that the globe is warming or, more commonly now, that the warming is caused by human agency. …

On March 22, the world’s oldest conscious being, Adwaitya (“The One and Only”), an Aldabra Giant Tortoise, died of liver failure at the Calcutta Zoo. …