Entitlement Reforms
In both Europe and America, there are many people who get angry at those who tell them the truth that the money is just not there to sustain huge welfare state...
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Insurance: Risky Business
Insurance is all about risk. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks — namely, interference by politicians, to turn insurance into something...
“2016: Obama’s America”: A Powerful Movie
Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie 2016: Obama's America based on Dinesh D'Souza's best-selling book, The Roots...
Obama’s Rule by Decree Quietly Dismantling America
There are some very serious issues at stake in this year's election — so many that some people may not be able to see the forest for the trees. Individual issues...
Harlem Then and Now
Books about the history of Harlem have long fascinated me — my favorite being When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis. However, a more recent book, titled simply Harlem...
Sports Versus Politics
It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics. What has...
Big Lies in Politics
Perhaps the biggest lie of this election year, and the one likely to be repeated the most often, is that the income of "the rich" is going up, while other people's...
Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who...
Aurora Shooting: News Versus Propaganda
Since so many in the media cannot resist turning every tragedy into a political talking point, it was perhaps inevitable that (1) someone would try to link the shooting rampage at...
Obama’s Rhetoric
Barack Obama's great rhetorical gifts include the ability to make the absurd sound not only plausible, but inspiring and profound. His latest verbal triumph was to say on July 13th, "if...
The Leftist Attack on Achievement
There was a time, within living memory, when the achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as an inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that had...
Are Race Riots News?
In the middle of the 20th century, Sri Lanka had a level of mutual respect and even friendship between its majority and minority communities that was rightly held up to the...
Raising Tax Rates on Higher Income Earners Could Lower Tax Revenues
On CNN's program The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, commentator Gloria Borger said, "if you're going to lower the tax rates, where are you going to get the money from?" First...
Obama’s Class Warfare Rhetoric
Anyone who wants to study the tricks of propaganda rhetoric has a rich source of examples in the statements of President Barack Obama. On Monday, July 9th, for example, he said...
Have More Jobs Been Created Than Lost During the Obama Administration?
When President Obama boasts of the number of jobs created during his administration, the numbers he cites may be correct, but he doesn't count the other jobs that were lost during...