Category: Reflections

To show my opposition to Washington’s new smoking ban, I plan on doubling my tobacco consumption: now I will smoke two clove cigarettes each month …

At one end of Terminal C in the Minneapolis airport there is a large mural of the African veldt, with a running antelope and cheetah. …

The U.S. government recently placed a new quota on imports of cheap hand-sewn brassieres from China. As a result, Chinese brassiere makers are trying to …

On November 8, California suffered a disaster worse than any eight-point earthquake. Voters spurned Governor Schwarzenegger’s attempts to limit the power of the modern liberal …

My local paper tells me in glaring black headlines that “Violence in France is slowing.” Good news – I read on. I find that this …

NORTH POLE – In response to Denmark’s announcement in October 2004 that it was exploring the possibility of claiming the North Pole as part of …

So I guess we’re supposed to accept the view that Chechen terrorists took 700 hostages in Moscow because of their hatred of Russia’s freedom and …

I have long suspected that the hard sciences are going the same way as “softer” pursuits, like sociology: namely, they have become too political and …

Well, Alan Greenspan didn’t do it again. Our Fed chairman, whose roar rattles the marketplace like the Wizard of Oz terrifies Dorothy, did nothing this …

everything from package delivery to education to health care, the private sector beats the government hands down. With that in mind I would like to …