Category: Reflections

“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 …

In 2009, more than 2,600 people were murdered as a part of the drug trade in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. As I write, Kingston, Jamaica is …

A few months ago, the northern New Jersey suburbs experienced a distinctive episode of teenagers flirting with antisocial behavior. First, a 16-year-old boy hijacked a …

Ron Paul, on the eve of his first test in a real election, was hit in January 2008 by an article in The New Republic …

On May 8, the Republican Party of Maine gathered in Portland for its biannual convention. Among the routine functions of the convention was the adoption …

I recently read a news item about Senator John Kerry’s remarks about voter anger at Washington. He said, “I think there’s a comprehension gap,” in …