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Politics Is About Clever Manipulation We accept that candidates calibrate political messages according to what people want to hear, not according to what they believe

WASHINGTON – Presumptive 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is in the news. Various articles report on her artful maneuvers...

The Crisis Of the Arab World Will Go On And On Not much that we can do about it. Still, we need to protect ourselves against terrorism, its most dangerous byproduct

WASHINGTON – With sympathy but a great deal of pessimism The Economist examines the state of perennial backwardness of...

Monticello In The Spring An old photograph of Jefferson's home shows the mansion in a beautiful Spring day. The sunshine makes it bright, beautiful shrubs full of flowers surround it

WASHINGTON – A while ago I found in a Virginia thrift shop an old color photograph of Monticello, the...

The Fourth Of July Is A Reminder To Appreciate The Gift Of Freedom The Founders believed that in freedom people would have the ability to pursue knowledge. And knowledge would create prosperity. They were mostly right

WASHINGTON– Today is the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of 1776 –and America’s most...

Iraq Crisis Should Spur U.S. To Use Domestic Natural Gas As Transportation Fuel While the US is producing more oil, we still import a lot. The mess in Iraq is likely to cause oil price increases. We can protect against them by using more of our own energy, this way cutting imports

WASHINGTON – Before the current crisis caused by the ISIL conquest of the North, oil analysts predicted that Iraq’s crude production,...

The Arrival Of High Quality On-Line Education Spells The End Of Traditional Universities Thanks to the Internet now it is possible to deliver high quality education to millions of users at a fraction of the cost of regular university tuition

WASHINGTON – Yes, it is official. Traditional universities are about to become extinct. This revolution in higher education is...

What Happened To American Innovation? No More Startups Two economists, Edward Prescott and Lee Ohanian, argue in a WSJ op-ed piece that America's innovation engine stalled

WASHINGTON – A sudden economic crisis, like the unprecedented financial meltdown of 2008, gets everybody’s attention. But a slow...

The Meaning of “American Exceptionalism” The State's main function is to protect individual freedoms

WASHINGTON – A few years ago, when asked about the meaning of “American Exceptionalism” during a trip abroad, President Obama, who...

Poroshenko Will Never Win Against Russia Time to abandon wishful thinking. Admit that Eastern Ukraine is lost

WASHINGTON – An indirect consequence of the sudden catastrophe in Iraq (major international crisis), and of the mounting humanitarian disaster caused...

Senator Rand Paul In A WSJ Op-Ed Piece Argues Against Getting Involved In Iraq The Senator, however, says nothing about the possible threat to America that ISIL in Iraq may create

WASHINGTON – In a well crafted WSJ op-ed piece, (America Shouldn’t Choose Sides in Iraq’s Civil War, June 20,...