Category: Reflections

Libertarians too often oppose what government does, simply because it is government that is doing it. It is one thing to resist governmental encroachment into …

A customer at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Mill Valley, Calif., opened his box of chicken and discovered two bags of marijuana instead. Apparently he …

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 …

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 …

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 …

So it turns out historian Michael Bellesiles, who wowed the intelligentsia with Arming America, made up a lot of the data he relies on to …

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 …