The Interest Rate Boogeyman
We’re facing an important inflection point in the stock market. And as always happens at such critical times, investors are likely to get bamboozled by misinformation that they get from the mainstream media. I’m going to try to straighten some of that out....Gone Fishin’ — Guilt Free
My sun-toasted toddler sits on a weathered dock, clutching her pink Barbie fishing pole with grown-up gravitas. Her pigtails bounce as she dangles her bare feet above the deep emerald lake, where her cherry red-and-white bobber waltzes in sync. She takes a swig from...California’s Real Elections
Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a big splash in the media by entering the California governor’s race. But the real news out of California came a few days before Arnold’s political bombshell. The latest census data show — for the first time —...Africa: A Tragic Continent
Anyone who believes President Bush’s Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans is whistling Dixie. Maybe it’s overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its...Activists More to Fear than Pesticides
As public health officials consider spraying pesticides to control the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, anti-pesticide activists claim that spraying devastates birds and other wildlife. But such claims should be viewed with skepticism. It seems that West Nile virus and...Justice Anthony Kennedy vs. Mandatory Sentencing Laws
Justice Anthony Kennedy won an outburst of applause at a recent meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco when he criticized mandatory sentencing laws. “Every day in prison is much longer than any day you’ve ever spent,” Justice...A Turn for the Worst: Turkey’s Radical Turn Toward Islam?
Is this the start of a process that could transform Turkey, for 80 years the stalwart of secularism in the Muslim Middle East, into an Islamic republic?
