How Congress can make vote-counting more efficient
(Nov. 14) Congress can and should take some actions that would rein in the worst of the problems causing the absurdly slow ballot counting in six western states. Most directly, […]
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EXCLUSIVE: CEO of National Trust resigns
(Nov. 18) Paul Edmondson, the CEO and president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation who has been heavily involved in turbulence at James Madison’s Montpelier , a Trust property, has announced […]
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When the band on the run was in the end zone
(Nov. 18) The bandmates tried to take the field, but the players all refused to yield. When the football teams of Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley play tomorrow in the […]
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Why both parties deserved not to win
(Nov. 15) With a full week’s perspective on the Nov. 8 elections , one can see the U.S. constitutional system , in a macro sense, again worked exquisitely well. The results provided rough justice […]
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Trumperor has no clothes
(Nov. 16) Wafting out from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night, pungent as a three-day-dead rat in a basement closet, came the unmistakable stench of a loser. Yes, in 2016, Donald Trump pulled an inside straight, […]
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Tax cuts aren’t always the right conservative answer
(Nov. 16) Credit one veteran conservative Republican legislator for understanding what real fiscal responsibility means. Chris Pringle, just elected speaker pro tem of the Alabama House of Representatives, offered a word […]
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All about the elections!
Four post-mortems, one piece about voting problems, and one long-term trend piece, all about last week’s elections. (Link to each full column is embedded in each headline.) Why Republicans politicians […]
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How can we better serve our veterans?
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, Nov. 11) On this Veterans Day, let us not just praise the valor of those who served in the U.S. armed forces , but also do […]
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This Dutchman has lived the free-market dream
(Nov. 2) A book I just finished offers lessons to the increasing number of young people who fail to appreciate the virtues of the free market or of the American […]
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Government behaving abusively (times three)
Glimmers of how to fight back in three different examples of frightening governmental treatment of ordinary citizens. (Full columns embedded in each headline.) Split up the FBI!!! (Nov. 4): Certain […]
