July 19, 2015

Education and America's Third World

The challenges facing cities like Baltimore are not just about policing and the complicated issues of race. There is also the significant challenge caused by a lack of opportunity.  This is a challenge that faces not just urban areas like Baltim...

March 21, 2014

Seeking Budgetary Prudence

During one of the many Republican Presidential Primary debates of 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry fumbled when he failed to name the third federal agency that he would eliminate if he were to become president.  In an interview following that now...

August 7, 2011

The Persecution of Christians in the Middle East

See also: The Jihad Against the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians The terrible violence in Oslo last month has brought the world's attention to the ravings of a madman and a murderer -- someone who was motivated to kill fellow Christians becau...

May 19, 2010

Waking Up to Urbane Anti-Semitism

As a child of the 1950s, I grew up hearing stories about the Holocaust and the indifference of a world that allowed the atrocities to occur. I learned about the St. Louis and the refugees aboard who, when refused permission to disembark in Florida, r...