In what may qualify as the year’s prime example of judicial charlatanism, U.S. District Senior Judge Marvin Shoob dismissed the case of Rachel Boim, the 14-year old honors student who was suspended from school three years ago for writing a fictional story about a student shooting a math teacher. Shoob’s reasoning – freedom of expression […]

The Missouri primary election is Tuesday and in this area the only real contest is the five way race for state auditor. With the exception of the convicted felon, I can’t say anything negative about any of the Republican candidates. All would fulfill the jobs qualifications and all seem quite capable of handling the position’s […]

Various groups are focused on a perceived national security threat at our southern border, a threat that to the extent it exists is the result of making it too difficult for Mexican migrant workers to cross legally at controlled border crossings in turn making it harder to track who is crossing that border. Meanwhile the […]

Michael Chertoff should resign. Why? Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose “Web logs” include political rantings and musings about current events. His department knowingly conducted an exercise designed to simulate the silencing of […]

The doom-and-gloom crowd has regularly ignored the substantial interest rate spreads that make dollar denominated assets more attractive than yen and euro assets. (4% versus 2% and 0% respectively for main central bank interest rates.) The near constant refrain is that “runaway” US borrowing, whether by consumers or the government, has the dollar on the […]

The CIA is asking the Justice Department for a criminal probe into the leak of real, sensitive national intelligence information regarding actual covert CIA operations. The kind of information that could easily have cost CIA agents in the field their lives. Those prisons were secret for a reason and I doubt it was torture. There’s […]