Social and even traditional media are abuzz with discussion of a supposed solution to the problem that the U.S. government is soon to max out its credit card (the “legal debt limit”): the U.S. Treasury would mint a platinum coin with a face value of $1 trillion, sell

Some reflections after seeing Robert Griffin III play through a knee injury and obvious pain in yesterday’s playoff game between his team the Washington Redskins and the Seattle Seahawks… I grew up in Texas, where football is by far the most popular sport, and like most boys in my

I am sure the ghouls in the U.S. Department of “Justice” – you know, the same organization that provided legal cover for U.S. presidents to torture people – are celebrating, today. They have managed to destroy Wegelin & Co., the oldest Swiss private bank, which had no offices in the

Our thirteen-year-old son Ethan studies Latin. He loves Latin. I suspect a big reason for his affection for the subject is that he loves his teacher, Dwane Thomas. Actually, Ethan has never met his teacher, at least not personally. Master Thomas comes to him only over the Internet, via VisualLatin.

Article XIII of the Articles of Confederation provided as follows: Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the

Thus announced my nine-year-old son as I took him to the restroom two hours into our family’s viewing of Les Misérables, the brilliant, new film from director Tom Hooper. His thirteen-year-old brother agreed with him: “Definitely the worst movie I have ever seen.” Apparently, art is wasted on the

After lying about the tax consequences of the Senate’s New Year’s Eve legislation to avert the manipulatively-named “fiscal cliff,” The New York Times finally admits the deal means “A Bigger Tax Bite for Most.” Predictably, the Times waited until after the House voted its assent to the tax

As its readers on the east coast awoke on New Year’s Day, The New York Times greeted them with news of overnight action by the U.S. Senate to avert the so-called fiscal cliff: “Senate Passes Legislation to Allow Taxes on Affluent to Rise.” Under Jonathan Weisman’s byline,

To the extent the Connecticut State Police know and have faithfully reported the essential facts of the matter, we know the cause of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, twenty children and six adults died because twenty-year-old

Reuters reports an AIG failure would still be disastrous for global markets and provides a litany of excuses for the latest bailout of the firm imposed on U.S. taxpayers. According to the Reuters report: “The government really does not have the option of letting AIG totally blow up,” said