Category: Reflections

On July 2, 2010, Sen. Robert Byrd was laid to rest in Charleston, West Virginia, where President Bill Clinton delivered a eulogy that, for the …

At FreedomFest this summer I took part in a debate where I was given five minutes to make a case for liberty without government, or …

“Raul Castro has made halting efforts to open the economy, while exhorting Cubans to work harder and stop depending on the state for everything” (AP, …

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 …

Two hoary economic truths rediscovered by the Obama administration are not just that the state can’t “create jobs” but also that it can, through one …

On July 29, a commentator on Fox News responded to a question from Juan Williams about the amazing amount of money that the Clintons devoted …