Failure to coddle prisoners does not constitute mistreatment. Our prison system should be and can be completely self-supporting. All prisoners should work 48 hours per week in constructive production with their eventual release contingent upon their production. ...more

February 12, 2009

Here are my comments on the divisive subject of the meaning of "liberal" and "conservative." ...more

February 6, 2009

It is the nature of economics that we go through these unanticipated cycles.... ...more

October 21, 2008

Terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo won't be set free to attack America, even though a recent Supreme Court says they have the right to basic judicial review of their imprisonment. ...more

June 18, 2008

The Tampa Tribune's recent editorial "Dropout Rate Might Improve If Schools Measured It Precisely" (Our Opinion, Nov. 28), which discusses Florida dropout and graduation rates, uses a flawed report from Johns Hopkins University as the basis for many of its claims. ...more

December 5, 2007

Splashing through a shallow creek in suburban New Jersey, the paleontologists stepped back 65 million years to the time of the last mass extinction, the one notable for the demise of the dinosaurs. ...more

November 11, 2007

'Rendition' focuses on the U.S. government's policy of transporting captured terror suspects to foreign countries for detention, interrogation and perhaps torture - a topic that's prime for debate and more than worthy for exploration in a film. ...more

October 19, 2007