Category: Reflections

I have been meaning for several months to bring to our readers’ attention a fascinating study published last year. It is “Tax Burden and Individual …

The July jobs report (released in early August) painted the picture of a continuing jobless recovery. The economy actually lost 131,000 jobs, total — a …

This summer, the mainstream media spent much time and energy discussing the case of Shirley Sherrod, an Obama appointee in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) …

“The policy elite — central bankers, finance ministers, politicians who pose as defenders of fiscal virtue — are acting like the priests of some ancient …

Two reports from unlikely sources suggest that the public is beginning to wake up to the lavish compensation our government workers enjoy. USA Today (August …

Of course we all know the law of unintended consequences, but some of us don’t know that Robert Burns — Scotland’s eternal poet laureate — …

While the public is rightly growing alarmed at the explosion of national debt, another debt disaster is growing. As noted in The Wall Street Journal …

A fair description of President Obama’s agenda is that it is “neosocialist.” This means that his goal is not necessarily to nationalize all industries (though …

I used to admire UPS, or “Brown,” as it calls itself (“What can Brown do for you?”). It seemed a model company, performing a good …

The financial reform bill that Congress passed into law this summer was Christmas in July for statist hacks. Three noxious examples: 1. The “reform” creates …