Charles Lane’s column in today’s Washington Post raises a very interesting question about the Supreme Court’s pending ruling on “Obamacare”. Is…
Nearsighted Strategy
Strategic decisions made in the heat of a Presidential campaign can have disastrous long-term consequences. Apparently some…
From Dogma to Axiom
Any system of knowledge or inquiry starts with assumptions. In science, they are called axioms. Euclidean Geometry starts with five…
Trayvon and The Democrats
Democrats and some media (MSNBC, for example) are rushing into the Trayvon Martin case as if it is an unalloyed…
Constitutional Babble
The original Star Trek series, with William Shatner as Captain Kirk, would not be the first place one would look…
Election Laws
Election laws are a matter of life and death for a political party. If you want to understand how they…
First, Do No Harm
Charles Murray’s latest book, Coming Apart, is receiving a lot of attention and attacks for its description of an increasingly…
Inevitable
Things are only inevitable, unstoppable and unchangeable until they aren’t. Through the first week of March, 2012, the progress of…
It Ain’t Luck
In every business transaction, we evaluate the capabilities of the people providing the service. Each mechanic, plumber, barber, hair stylist,…
Thoughts on 2012
Some thoughts on where we are and the coming political campaign: The United States The U.S. is still in a…