Category: Reflections

Ever since its inception, utopian socialist ideology has included calls for the elimination of prisons. Many of the early idealists, such as the Ukrainean left-anarchist …

The theory of anthropogenic global warming hasn’t had a great year. First came the “hacking” of emails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia …

In an open letter the German tabloid Bild has reminded Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou of the two countries’ differences: “Here, people work until they …

Following the advice of Sun Tzu, I try to understand my adversaries. This effort leads me to join some email lists and read some magazines …

As the congressional hearings on Toyota and its recall continued, two facts emerged to reinforce the perception that there is a political agenda here. First, …

Last month I watched an episode of the great Fox Business Network show “Stossel,” devoted to the idea that increasing government power is pushing us …

From The New York Times: “Obama Writes Own Health Bill. Should he have done this months ago? Hoping to revive his healthcare agenda, President Obama …

The stunning election of Scott Brown to Teddy Kennedy’s old Senate seat has already had one salutary effect. I refer to the quashing of Craig …

The Winter Olympics recently finished in Vancouver. Every day, there were thousands and thousands of very drunk people in the streets, singing “O Canada!”, doing …

Recently, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that future federal transit grants would focus on “livability.” Beneath the rhetoric is LaHood’s decision to eliminate the only …