When should you be taxed? When you work hard and make money (income and payroll taxes)? Or when you buy something (sales taxes)? Neither of these seems very appealing. But how about this: Tax a person or business when they pollute.
I do not favor increasing taxes so that the net national tax load becomes a [...]

As construction of the wall along the southern border picks up, so will protests:
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - The mayors of the Texan city of El Paso and the Mexican city of Juarez led a protest by dozens of people on Saturday against a planned border wall to stem illegal immigration into America.
The protesters held [...]

Oops, now he tells us. … but wait, this is in 1994:

It is amazing how the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center put this country into a war mentality (including me). When thinking about trying to remake the Middle East, taking down Saddam Hussein seemed like a good choice. But you listen to Dick [...]

Early in the Iraq War the British entered Basra and things there remained relatively peaceful. Without the conflicts between Shiites and Sunnis (Basra is mostly Shiite), there seemed to be less potential for conflicts. And the locals and the British troops seemed to get along well enough.
But now of course the Shiites are right in [...]

Just occasionally I agree with something a Democratic politician has to say:
MIAMI - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is leaping into the long-running Cuba debate by calling for the U.S. to ease restrictions for Cuban-Americans who want to visit the island or send money home.
Obama’s campaign said Monday that, if elected, the Illinois senator [...]

I was in South Korea last week. I visited one of the best known and successful Korean consumer electronics companies. I was mostly visiting and talking with their engineers on technical matters. But at different times I asked some of them how many hours they worked per day. I saw so many people at their [...]