Category: Reflections

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, …

California environmental groups and their allies in state government have imposed so many planning regulations that it is virtually impossible to build electric power plants …

Bush vs. Patton – Administration figures are try- ing their hardest to fend off calls for a timetable for troop withdrawal: • George W. Bush, …

It’s conventional wisdom, for a very large number of unwise people, to claim Shakespeare was right when he wrote “The first thing we do,.let’s kill …

Once this issue of Liberty is sent off to the printer, I’ll load a few days’ worth of clothes into a wheeled suitcase, and a …

A December 16 headline on MSNBC: “GM to stop paying into some workers’ 401(k)s: Auto giant tells white-collar workers it will suspend matching contributions.” The …