POLITICS

A "little Caesar," before it referred to a pizza delivery mascot, used to refer to a petty official -- or gangster -- with delusions of grandeur, the type who seeks power for the pleasure of abusing it. The Enron investigation is making it clear that the Senate is...

American companies are incorporating into Bermuda to lower their taxes. Some people suggest that this growing trend is unpatriotic. In reality, these companies are acting in the spirit of America's original patriots. The New York Times reported1 that these companies...

Many people assume that they can't accomplish their goals until they have "the right motivation." They will even seek psychological help in order to establish "the right motivation" before taking any steps towards a goal. This is a mistake -- and an amazingly common...

Don't make the fatal mistake of believing government can't do anything right. No organization could expand to the point of commanding a budget in excess of two trillion dollars and be completely inept -- not even the bumbling bureaucracy in Washington. Although the...

The bulk of President Bush's tax cut won't take effect until at least 2004. It is scheduled to disappear in 2011. The president may have been pushed into this deal politically last year, but it was a mistake. Fortunately, in his State of the Union address, he asked...

It was the final hockey game of a lousy season. We had won the first three games in my senior year at Salem High School, beating Danvers, Revere, and Marblehead, but had then lost the next half dozen games, five of them by a single goal. So we badly wanted to win this...

Fans of the TV show "Seinfeld" will remember an episode in which perpetual loser George Costanza announces a major shift in attitude: From that point on, he will simply "do the opposite" of whatever he would normally do in any given situation. This turns into an...

Even if you’re not a fan of detective stories, you may enjoy this recently discovered Sherlock Holmes story – one that few devotees of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even knew existed. It’s called “The Case of the Missing Surplus.”

On Sunday, February 3rd, Yasser Arafat published an 1,100-word op-ed column, "The Palestinian Vision of Peace," in The New York Times. In it, he wrote that the Palestinian people yearn to live "as an equal neighbor alongside Israel with peace and security for both."...

Jack Welch is arguably the most famous CEO in the world. His 20-year reign as the head of General Electric brought the company from bureaucratic behemoth to dynamic and revered powerhouse. During his tenure, GE market value grew from $13 billion to $500 billion. In...

A donor conference for Afghanistan convened in Tokyo last week had every appearance of being humane, moral, and sensible. Representatives from sixty governments pledged to help rebuild Afghanistan by committing at least $1.7 billion in 2002 and $10.2 billion over the...

You may think you know what happened on Jan. 3, 2002 when Israeli Navy Seals seized the Karine A, a cargo ship carrying 50 tons of contraband Katyusha rockets, anti-tank missiles, mortars, mines, explosives, and sniper rifles. You may think the ship's captain...

The events of the past few weeks in Israel have offered a timeless lesson on the real cause of terrorism and the real meaning of the "peace process." The pattern of these events is crystal clear: Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority have escalated their war...

Among the political chattering classes, there's a big buzz over a tiny activist organization called the Environmental Working Group. Both liberals and conservatives, including the left-leaning New York Times editorial page and the right-leaning Wall Street Journal...