Category: Reflections

An article by the always interesting Peter Huber in the excellent City Journal (Spring 2010) is well worth reading. It is about Stewart Brand, founder …

I watch C-SPAN while getting dressed in the morning. Callers address comments and questions to an official or expert in some field. The listener gets …

Some commentators have moaned that the public exposure of Journolist (a listserv group of snotty leftwing reporters, news producers, and other weenies) deals a mortal …

On July 15, Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security for the Obama administration, made the ultimate betrayal of her own state in favor of national …

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 …

Hearing the president and his friends rant against British Petroleum because of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico reminds me of the justifiably …

You might think a nation so thoroughly identified with the surveillance state would want to downplay that association when they open themselves up to the …

The estate tax is unfair and counterproductive in several ways. Here I focus on only one of them. The Bush tax-cut laws made the estate …

What with massive oil spills, foreign countries near collapse because of excessive debt, possible high crimes and misdemeanors floating around, shaky stock markets and other …

I’m still tickled by Eric Holder’s admission that he hadn’t read Arizona’s anti-illegal- immigrant law before he furiously denounced it. Since the law is only …