Category: Reflections

Women can’t get any satisfaction these days. Yet another report, this by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), asks why there are so few …

The welfare state grows when envy convinces voters that governments can take from the rich and give to the poor, thus increasing the size of …

Well, I celebrated too soon. I admit it. In a previous Reflection, I celebrated the fact that Obama had withdrawn radical labor lawyer Craig Becker …

A specter is haunting Al Gore and friends. No, it’s not global warming with its scary tornados, sea level rises, and species extinctions. It is …

Obama’s man in Afghanistan has made an astonishing admission. In a comment on American checkpoints, General Stanley McChrystal said: “We have shot an amazing number …

I have always enjoyed thought experiments and other mind games that breakthrough habits of thinking or offer unusual insights. It is just plain fun to …

Here’s another reason to cheer Sarah Palin’s humiliation in the CPAC straw poll at the hands of Ron Paul. No doubt, Palin’s questioners at Fox …

Driving home from work recently, I noticed a new sign by a road on my route. It’s one of those small metal signs that from …

I think it was inevitable, from a number of points of view, that the euro would sooner or later burst apart at the seams. The …

In the February 23 issue of the Huffington Post is an article by “actress/singer/composer/ activist” Barbra Streisand. It’s called “Elections Should Be Won — Not …