Christopher Orlet
President Barack Obama won his budget pound of flesh in the “fiscal cliff” showdown. Taxes on the “rich” are going up. But that hasn’t solved Washington’s deficit crisis. Nor would approval of the new taxes that he proposed help avoid…
Journalists. They can turn the most benign trend into a national crisis. Normally they reserve their Chicken-Littleism for when there’s a Republican in the White House. These days they can’t wait. They may be out of a job by time…
Repent, suburbanites, for the end is near! That’s the gist of a new piece in The Atlantic titled “The Beginning of the End for Suburban America.” And this time, say the doomsayers, it’s not just wishful thinking. Many signs and…
It’s the end of the United States Postal Service as we know it. Rain, snow, and gloom of night may not have able to stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, but technical progress and a…
My grandfather never ate a leafy green vegetable in his life. The only exercise he ever got was buffing and waxing the hallways at the local high school where he worked for thirty years. He never even heard of light…
Today’s libertarians are metaphysically mad, argued conservative guru Russell Kirk nearly two decades ago. Libertarians so disgusted Kirk he would have gladly herded them onto an ice flow and set them adrift in the middle of the Pacific. Sounds like…
A longtime acquaintance of mine — we’ll call him Sam — recently announced that he’d joined an adult kickball league. Now the important thing to know about Sam is that he is the 48-year-old twice-married father of three adult children….
The sad news arrived, like so much news today, via social media. Guy Pierre Bour was dead. To most readers the name will mean nothing, for Guy was no celebrity, professional athlete or politician. It was as a proprietor that…
On the eve of the 1980 presidential election, a rare double rainbow decorated the skies above Tampico, Illinois. The image was captured by grain elevator operator Lloyd McElhiney’s Kodak Instamatic. Those who witnessed the event swear the primary rainbow came…
Early last month police in Fullerton, California, received a report that someone was breaking into cars at the city’s transportation center. For years, the station has been a popular hub for the homeless. Unlike private business owners who have to…
