Category: Reflections

The headline was: “Issuing Rebuke, Judge Rejects Teaching of Intelligent Design.” When New York Times readers saw it on Dec. 21, most of them probably …

“Now by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires – a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing …

Selective blacklisting – Having more than once objected in these pages to complaints about Hollywood (and other professional) blacklisting that regarded only sometime Communists as …

The Kennedys have a history of putting their names on book covers, and now Teddy has joined in with “My Senator and Me: A Dog’s-Eye …

Last year marked the consolidation of what has been a bipartisan consensus in the Imperial City in favor of big government and all its expenses …

In Noblesville, Ind., a woman getting flu medicine from a corner store was accosted in the parking lot by two cops. They thought she was …

I got to thinking about failed states recently, especially in Africa, what with the news that 12% of South Africans may be HIV positive, the …

Freedom is usually lost in steps, for individuals or entire nations. As Scottish philosopher David Hume observed, “It is seldom that liberty of any kind …

Each side in a political dispute settles on its own version of history. Each may see an event from the same media eyes, but what …

One of the least noticed, let alone resisted, oppressions of contemporary life is the ruthless tyranny of time, our clock- police state. Everywhere Big Brother, …