Category: Reflections

I’ve been doing some research on the history of California’s constitution, and it has been an eye-opening experience indeed. If you thought that nobody really …

Richard Reid tried to sneak a bomb on an airplane in his shoes. Now every day thousands of Americans are forced to remove their shoes …

Nearly four decad~safter the death of John F. Kennedy, the men appointed to protect his reputation finally allowed a scholar limited access to his medical …

– The funeral service for Sen. Paul Wellstone commanded thousands of Democratic activists and faithful from throughout Minnesota and beyond. Many Republican commentators found it …

Christmas is truly an American holiday. Santa Claus is based on European legends, but the man we recognize is based on Coca-Cola ads. Rudolph was …

In Richard Linklater’s movie Waking Life, there is a scene involving two gun owners in a bar. One tells a lurid story about shooting a …

Following a precedent established in Hawaii, the New Jersey Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that police may only ask for” consent” to search a car …

California airports have been shut down on several occasions because their $1.7 million CTX scanners mistook things like a Mickey Mouse snow globe, a dummy …

It seems to me that if we put the Swedes in charge, the situation in Palestine would clear up of its own accord. Look at …

March 11 was the day the War on Terror celebrated its six-month birthday, and a day for the pundits to comment on how the war …