Category: Reflections

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 …

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 …

Michigan is a poster child for what happens when tax-and-spend politicians run a state for decades. It is an economic basket case. A report by …

As a resident of Connecticut I am concerned about the race for Senate to claim the seat vacated by Chris Dodd. On the Democratic side …