Category: Reflections

A Reuters article claims that the Canadian Health Care system, once the pride of Western socialism, is facing financial collapse. Measures are being considered to …

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 …

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 …