Category: Reflections

One of the reasons I’ve heard for continuing the Amtrak subsidy is that passenger rail saves energy. Why does anyone think that running empty passenger …

In signing the Defense Appropriations bill that contained the McCain antitorture amendment, the president proclaimed that “The executive branch shall construe … [the section of …

Your cell phone records are available to anyone, online, for a fee! On Jan. 12, AmericaBlog had a post entitled 1 / AmericaBlog just bought …

I strongly support efficient urban transit systems, but transit officials seem intent on giving people more reasons not to ride transit: • In Denver, a …

I’m always suspicious (disgusted, actually) when I see a large American corporation legally paying off politicians, or when politicians anticipate a legal payoff by lavishing …

I just received word that Ayn Rand’s novels, along with my book “The Making of Modern Economics,” have been pulled from the shelves of the …

Only 18 House Republicans voted against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act in December 2005, including two who had voted against the Iraq war resolution …

Economies are booming in America and around the world. U.S. gross domestic product growth for the third quarter of 2005 was revised upward to over …

Stanley “Tookie” Williams founded the Crips, a California street gang that, to put it mildly, has done a lot of bad stuff. He himself was …

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 …