June is Pride Month and many municipalities permit the POW/MIA flag to be flown over city halls while declining to fly the Pride flag.  Critics view this as unequal treatment of two groups of Americans, while supporters of the distinction argue that the two flags...

People tend to judge economic and political systems not by textbooks, but by what they personally experience.  And many, perhaps most, younger Americans, particularly Millennials and Gen Z,  came of age during and just after the economic recession 0f 2008-09.  They...

“Happy Memorial Day from your friends at B&J Refrigeration” – that was the email sitting in my inbox this morning, the sender was the retailer that installed and services our furnace and air conditioning units.  And while I appreciate the fact these folks...

We’re all familiar with the Latin phrase cui bono? — “who benefits?”  Less familiar, perhaps, is cui detrimento? — “to whose detriment?”  With that in mind, today I thought we might examine the issue of potential Puerto Rican statehood. As I’ve written before, if...

Criticism of individual Supreme Court decisions by the democrats is evolving into something far dangerous than mere criticism.  It’s become an organized effort to portray the Court itself as illegitimate whenever its rulings conflict with progressive political goals. ...

Today marks the 157th anniversary of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad — the nation-building achievement that helped bind the United States together from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Completed on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, the...

“I may disagree with what you say, but I’ll defend your right to say it”—a quote that captures the essence of classical liberalism: individual liberty, freedom of speech, conscience, and religion.  A philosophy that strongly influenced the Founders and is reflected in...

Occasionally, when the mood strikes me I’ll resurrect a favorite commentary from my past life as a commentary writer for the Vail Daily.  I think it’s good to re-share positive ideas.  This post/commentary was published on January 2nd, 2003, and I while I view the...

I came of age in the sixties—Vietnam, social upheaval, the Beatles—and I remember clearly how I viewed the World War II generation. They seemed old, rigid, and out of step with the times. What I didn’t appreciate then was how little time actually separated us. It had...