Category: Reflections

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. …

Scene: a rural hospital in the Congo. A man lies on a bed, vomiting, bleeding, dying. He is only the first: already three more with …

While Congress ran away from the Dubai Ports deal, Rep. Mike Oxley (R-Ohio) noted that “Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.” True, and …

I have been practicing immigration law for five years. It is very taxing, but I carry on. Clients speak little or no English, and insist …

Inflation is rising. Real estate prices are falling. The Washington Times (March 14) reports that members of the business elite, “deeply concerned by what they …

About 15 years ago, I liked to do research at the Montana State University library, but I was unable to take my son, a toddler, …

Nevada recently considered taxing prostitution, which would mean a change in rhetoric for those satirists who describe sex as the only tax-free vice left in …