Red Ink Woes Just 29 days before Governor Jindal and the 144 members of the Legislature are to be sworn in, they got a strong hint that governing might not be a bed of roses during the next four years. The four...
Christmas Books The joys of Christmas do not include coping with crowds at shopping malls or wracking your brains trying to figure out what to get as a gift for someone who already seems to have everything.
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The Cause Almost exactly two years after the unauthorized release of the “Climategate” emails fromEast Anglia University in England that stood the global warming debate on its ear, the leaker has struck agai...
Alice in Liberal Land "Alice in Wonderland" was written by a professor who also wrote a book on symbolic logic. So it is not surprising that Alice encountered not only strange behavior in Wonderland, but also strange an...
Will Republicans blow it? Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catch phrase could stop thinking for 50 years. One of the often-repeated catch phrases of our time -- "It's the economy, stupid!" -- has already stopp...
EDITORIAL: How PBMs are changing pharmaceuticals You like going to the corner drugstore when you need to pick up a few things - aspirin, cough medicine for the kids, shampoo, household items and your prescriptions - all in one stop. You might eve...
What cuts? The latest enactment of kicking the fiscal can down the road in Washington is drawing to a close. As with the "debt ceiling crisis" last summer, the current version of the Potomac Follies will like...
Numbers Games One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juveni...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
“No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less…”
-- John Donnne, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
Th...
Numbers Games One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juveni...
Wall Street protesters A woman I don’t know wrote the letter below to the protesters camping out in major cities. It says it all.
You won’t see it in the liberal news media that delights in giving these protesters wides...
