| Nov 29, 2010 | Economy / BusinessTrains will never Leave the gate; Buses seem A wiser fate. With all due respect to President Barack Obama and the $8 billion he’s dishing out to the states for high-speed rail, it’s too late. Fast trains have been overtaken by gradual events. America has...
| Nov 22, 2010 | Economy / BusinessWe have seen the future and it is grim. That glimpse of the road ahead arrived in the form of a preview of the Bowles-Simpson Commission’s report on the kinds of things government has to do (and not do) if we want to avoid economic doom. Things like giving up...
| | Peace / SecurityAre you aware that America has now been at war for nearly a decade? We’ve been fighting, bleeding, and dying in two hellacious, multi-trillion-dollar conflagrations since 2001–and our blood continues to flow, with no end in sight. Well, not our blood. Not...
| | Rights / DemocracyAnti-war, Can mean your doom; Feds come to, Your living room. Most likely, you’re too young to remember J. Edgar Hoover. He led the FBI in the 1940s and ’50s. Badly. He was the Establishment’s enforcer. Liberals lived in fear of appearing on his...
| Nov 15, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyTo me, the most patriotic day of the year is not the Fourth of July. It’s not Veteran’s Day. Nor is it Thanksgiving. It’s Election Day. That’s when I feel most American. I love to vote. I find it thrilling. I once wrote a column about the last...
