Category: Reflections

I think economists can forget about rational ignorance and rational irrationality and just focus on rational stupidity. Pursuing intelligence has a cost. In many areas …

We libertarians are always looking for a thread we could pull to unravel a bit of the statist mess we’re in. One possibility would be …

Candidates in the Democratic Party appear poised for defeats this November at all levels – local, state, and federal. The defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley …

Heady from Scott Brown’s taking of Ted Kennedy’s (sorry, “the people’s”) seat in Congress, some are already calling for Brown to run for president. I …

In a recent “town hall” meeting in New Hampshire, Barack Obama put in another dig against Las Vegas. Some Las Vegas residents, particularly the city’s …

Ottawa is the second coldest capital city in the world. Winter brings ferocious downfalls of knee-deep snow. Being raised in the Ottawa area, I was …

Discussion of bipartisan- ship always puts me in mind of sewage and the Grand River in west Michigan. For many years, storm water drain pipes …

January 1 in the United Kingdom saw the value-added tax (VAT) increase from 15% to 17% – one of the legacies of the disastrous administration …

In a speech, President Obama mentioned that fewer people lost their jobs last month than in any month since 2008. He also predicts that once …

There is more happy news about the ever widening California public employee pension nightmare. Some of the news relates to the California State Teachers’ Retirement …