August 3, 2024

Sporting history repeating itself

As documented in the recently published The Playing Fields of the Hellenes. A Story about the Ancient Olympics, the original Olympics occurred in a place called Olympia from 776 B.C. to 393 A.D. In the later years of these ancient games, the pankrati...

April 12, 2009

Obama's Poster Children for Tax Reform

If, as Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed, taxes are what we pay for a civilized society, we have become very civilized indeed.A difficulty is that tax laws are so complicated, so convoluted, so loaded with preferences and exceptions that it’s next ...

April 9, 2009

Regrets only

Watching Barack Obama this past week was painful.  The new president went out of his way to apologize for America's flaws.  His groveling won rave reviews from some foreigners, the American mainstream media, and others who hold the United S...

April 3, 2009

CNN's Roland Martin Misstates Catholic Teaching

CNN’s Roland Martin is hosting Campbell Brown: "No Bias, No Bull" for the next eight weeks.  On Monday’s program, Martin clearly demonstrated he’s going to have trouble living up to the program’s title.The subje...