Legislating Morality

A good editorial from George Will: E-cigarettes raise public health issues but also illustrate the unhealthy process by which public policy often is made. They illustrate a familiar phenomenon, the cooperation between “bootleggers and Baptists,” meaning merchants and moralists — those

Standards for Conduct

It’s somewhat amazing that a person can operate with impunity, violate laws, and then decide to run for president… and the media just elects to overlook the major transgressions.  Why?  

Economic Progress in Greece?

It doesn’t appear that there is a magical solution: Even if it survives the next three months teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Greece may have blown its best chance of a long-term debt deal by alienating its euro zone

A deal with Iran?

An interesting quote: These negotiations have exposed the president as few events have. “Mr. Obama,” says the New York Observer, no particular friend of Republicans and conservative critics of the president, “is an amateur who is enthralled with the sound