President Obama simply can’t resist taking shots at Republicans anytime something bad happens (to foreclose any response from those who will reply that Republicans do it too, I will challenge that if you wish).  In this case it was the Baltimore riots, which by now everyone knows about.  In his press conference today, the president […]

Well, not really, of course, but his thoughts, frequently so timeless, seem particularly appropriate today. In his famous Lyceum Address in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln meditated on the theme of civil obedience. Though we tend in our day to ponder endlessly the justifications for disobedience, Lincoln was convinced that our willingness to obey the law was […]

I caught a snippet of former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner’s interview about his transgender journey—not to mention its exaltation by the networks, even ESPN.  One thing Jenner said however, I did appreciate.  He said that he and anyone else ought to have the right to pursue their goals (a paraphrase) as they choose.  He apparently […]

I have to agree with him; Mr. & Mrs. Clinton have both spoken eloquently in defending the importance of faith and marriage between one man and one woman.  Unfortunately my previous sentence was written in past tense.  Is this not the ultimate flip-flop, finger in the wind approach to leadership?  Mr. DeYoung’s summary point of […]

The United States Supreme Court heard another important case Wednesday, April 22, Horne v. Department of Agriculture.  Under a 1937 New Deal era Marketing Order scheme, the Federal government gets to confiscate outright whatever percentage of a raisin crop is deemed necessary to keep raisin prices high, or high enough.  Henry Horne, a raisin grower […]

Everyone, it is Earth Day.  I remember painting garbage cans and lids with peace signs as a Sophomore in high school in the early 1970s to celebrate this hallowed day–at least for the radical environmentalists.  Look, I support clean air and water–though not the eradication of CO2, which I breath out and trees and plants […]

Overcriminalization is in the Supreme Court news this week, according to Jonathan Keim, writing in the National Review Online in the April 19 issue.  Keim tells us that five cases to be heard by the Court thus week concern the issue of overcriminalization statutory law.  This issue is one I have followed since it came […]

Critics of capitalism or markets are not too difficult to find.  They come mainly from the ideological Left, but some also come from what appears to be a non-Leftist position of postmodernism.  I actually believe most postmoderns lean Left, some violently, but for now I will let that go.  Finally I have found a fairly […]

So asks Don Boudreaux over on Cafe Hayek.  And with very good reason.  You should read all of his post, the logic is impeccable if perhaps graphic. I share his post because it is a lament I had the other night while out walking the dog with my wife.  I wasn’t thinking of Mr. Boudreaux’s […]

Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve board joined the chorus of Wall Street cheerleaders saying the Fed can afford to be patient with raising interest rates earlier this week.  His rationale? Inflation as measured by the consumer price index or the Fed’s favored measure is very low: The so-called hawks, who have been calling […]