Category: Reflections

If you consider the principal effects of their violence, the 19 guys rank as monumental fools: 1) closer cooperation between the two old superpowers, Russia …

On Dec. 7, 1928, Avram Noam Chomsky was born into this world, and he’s still, even as a senior citizen, screaming and kicking. That’s actually …

The day George Harrison passed away (Friday, Nov. 30) my brother sent me an email: “The Beatles are halfway to a reunion.” It was a …

“After great pain a formal feeling comes.” That’s about where we are now, those of us who didn’t lose anyone we loved on Sept. 11. …

People are being asked to spend, spend, spend – out of patriotism and to forestall economic depression. But spending in itself does not prosperity make. …

The new anti-terrorism act includes a laundry list of new powers for the federal government. But the issue, as is often the case, is ‘not …

Come January 2002, 300 million people in twelve European countries will start using the Euro exclusively instead of their domestic notes. The new European notes …

When is a “stimulus package” not a stimulus but a drag? When it relies on coercion – taxes or inflation – to pay the costs …

President Bush was the first president to attend a World Series game since Ronald Reagan. He threw the first pitch and it was a perfect …

Hearing all the blather directed at those who would apply the rule of law even to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, I am reminded …