Category: Reflections

What came across most clearly in the State of the Union speech is Bushs belief that the United States IS capable of making and maintaining …

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) spent $3.5 million of taxpayer money to purchase two ads during the Super Bowl that accused recreational …

Axis of stupid – How can we explain George W. Bush’s call for action against Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, the “Axis of Evil”? The …

The case of John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban, seems to have been designed to bring out the worst arguments in people. 1. The bald-faced …

By now I would have expected psychiatry to have a diagnosis for someone who coerces others for their own good. But then I guess that …

Anyone. notice that it’s getting pretty creepy around the edges? First, from the libertarian right, Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is …

Columbia Law professors recently completed a study that concludes that more than seven out of ten death-penalty cases were reversed because of procedural errors. I’m …

In the world of the upper East Side where apartments run $4 million and lunch consists of an ounce of arugula, you can, as they …

Much as I respect the thinking of Ralph Reiland (see previous reflection), I am not yet laughing at critics of state power, like Lew Rockwell. …

Let’s face it, we’re too damn fat, and this is America, so someone should be sued! Professor Marion Nestle at New York University provided the …