Category: Reflections

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 …

Sprawlwatch,” an anti-suburb group, recently issued a report claiming that the suburbs are bad for our health. Americans’ are obese, the report says, therefore suburbs …

I was surprised to read in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that, along with the FBI, Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School called for a …

There is a fear in this country today that we are walking alongside evil people who want to destroy the American way of life, even …

On Nov. 12,·two months and one day after terrorist-commandeered commercial airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center, another American Airlines jet crashed into the Belle …