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- Equality on Trial - July 1, 2009
- For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd Circuit Court of...
- Alice in Medical Care - June 30, 2009
- Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catch-phrases but remarkably...
- Republicans in the Wilderness - June 28, 2009
- A Gallup poll last week showed that far more Americans describe themselves as "conservatives" than as "liberals." Yet Republicans have been clobbered by the Democrats in...
- Another "Good Thing" - June 23, 2009
- Even if the "stimulus" package doesn't seem to be doing much to stimulate the economy, it is certainly stimulating many potential recipients of government money to start...
- Equality or Pay-back? - June 21, 2009
- Back when I was on the receiving end of racial discrimination, it was to me not simply a personal misfortune, or even the misfortune of a race, it was a moral outrage....
- The Character of Nations - June 10, 2009
- In an age that values cleverness over wisdom, it is not surprising that many superficial but clever books get more attention than a wise book like "The Character of...
- Varieties of Nothing - June 9, 2009
- Doing nothing might seem to be simple and easy. But there are many varieties of nothing, and some kinds of nothing can get very elaborate and complex. In courts of law,...
- "Out of Context": Part II - June 2, 2009
- As the mainstream media circles the wagons around Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to protect her from the consequences of her own words and deeds, its main arguments are...
- "Out of Context" : Part III - June 2, 2009
- As part of the biographical preoccupation with Judge Sonia Sotomayor's past, the New York Times of May 31st had a feature story on the various New York housing projects...
- 'Out of Context' - June 2, 2009
- In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said. The clearly racist comments made...
- Burke and Obama - May 29, 2009
- The other day I sought a respite from current events by re-reading some of the writings of 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke. But it was not nearly as big an...
- "Empathy" in Action - May 27, 2009
- It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court of...
- Random Thoughts - May 27, 2009
- Random thoughts on the passing scene: They say that people mellow with age. However, the older I get, the less patience I have with cleverness. If increased government...
- Photographic Fraud - May 19, 2009
- The media have an obvious vested interest in constantly urging that cameras be allowed in more places where governmental decisions are being made, including the Supreme...
- Debate Over 'Torture' Lacks Seriousness - May 13, 2009
- One of the many signs of the degeneration of our times is how many serious, even life-and-death, issues are approached as talking points in a game of verbal fencing....
- The Blame Game - May 12, 2009
- After virtually every disaster created by Beltway politicians you can hear the sound of feet scurrying for cover in Washington, see fingers pointing in every direction...
- The Statue of Justice Wears a Blindfold - May 7, 2009
- There is a reason why the statue of Justice wears a blindfold. There are things that courts are not supposed to see or recognize when making their decisions-- the race...
- "Empathy" Versus Law: Part III - May 6, 2009
- While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense...
- 'Empathy' Versus Law: Part II - May 6, 2009
- The great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is not the kind of justice who would have been appointed under President Barack Obama's criterion of "empathy" for...
- 'Empathy' Versus Law - May 5, 2009
- Justice David Souter's retirement from the Supreme Court presents President Barack Obama with his first opportunity to appoint someone to the High Court. People who are...
- The Housing Boom and Bust - April 29, 2009
- In the spirit of bipartisanship, my newest book-- "The Housing Boom and Bust"-- shows how both Democrats and Republicans ruined both the housing markets and the...
- Survival Optional - April 28, 2009
- It used to be said that self-preservation is the first law of nature. But much of what has been happening in recent times in the United States, and in Western...
- Words Versus Realities - April 21, 2009
- Much as I hate to be the bearer of bad news, I must report the shocking facts: Medical care is medical care. Nothing more and nothing less. This may not seem like a...
- Are You an 'Extremist'? - April 21, 2009
- While the rest of us may be worried about violent Mexican drug gangs on our border, or about terrorists who are going to be released from Guantanamo, the Director of...
- Magic Numbers in Politics - April 17, 2009
- Words are not the only things that enable political rhetoric to magically transform reality. Numbers can be used just as creatively-- and many voters are even more...
- Magic Words in Politics - April 14, 2009
- China is the largest foreign holder of U.S. government bonds. But, instead of buying more of those bonds as our skyrocketing national debt leads to more bonds being...
- Mind-Changing Books - April 12, 2009
- The writings of Karl Marx-- especially The Communist Manifesto-- had the longest lasting effect on me as a young man and led me to become and remain a Marxist throughout...
- Mind-Changing Books - Detroit News - April 12, 2009
- Random Thoughts - April 7, 2009
- Barack Obama seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s, at home and abroad. He has already repeated Herbert Hoover's policy of raising taxes on...
- A Rookie President - March 31, 2009
- Barack Obama is a rookie in a sense that few other Presidents in American history have ever been. It is not just that he has never been President before. He...
- Cheap Political Theater - March 24, 2009
- Whatever the political or economic issues involved, this is not the way such issues should be resolved in America. We are not yet a banana republic, though...
- False Solutions and Real Problems - March 17, 2009
- What was the problem that didn't exist? It was a national problem of unaffordable housing. The political crusade for affordable housing got into high gear in...
- The Republican Civil War - March 17, 2009
- New Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's cheap shot at Rush's program as "ugly" set off the latest round of in-fighting. That is the kind...
- Subsidizing Bad Decisions - March 10, 2009
- Why should taxpayers who live in apartments, perhaps because they did not feel that they could afford to buy a house, be forced to subsidize other people who could...
- Is Talk Cheap? - March 3, 2009
- German immigrants who settled around the world have been among the more tolerant peoples-- not angels, a standard that only intellectuals could use, but...
- "Not One of Us" - February 24, 2009
- Anyone familiar with history knows that Hitler and Stalin were pragmatic. After years of denouncing each other, they signed the Nazi-Soviet pact under which...
- A Fatal Trajectory - February 24, 2009
- First of all, the day-to-day life of most Americans in these times is nowhere near as dire as that of the band of cold, ragged and hungry men who gathered...
- Upside Down Economics - February 18, 2009
- That was what the market was like before the government intervened. Like many government interventions, it began small and later grew. The...
- The Rush to Wait - February 18, 2009
- Not even the most Alice-in-Wonderland actions will arouse the suspicions of those who have what William James once called "the will to believe." ...
- De-Programming Students - February 10, 2009
- Various authors have written a lot of good books that demolish what is currently believed-- and taught to students-- on a wide range of issues. Some of those...