Lawrence Henry

Quin, that doesn’t make any sense, and no, I don’t think I misunderstood you. In order to carry out your proposed strategy, Fed Open Market Committee meetings would turn into a connivance. (“Let’s see…what do we want to look like?…

Quin, allowing for the best of motives, what you propose is, essentially, random and meaningless action by the Fed, which would shake markets up horribly.

“Obesity May Be Catching” ran the headline in a Canadian wire service report last week. Based on a report in the New England Journal of Medicine, that reliable alarm-sounder, which was in turn based on a study conducted of 12,000…

Phil, I was as enticed as anyone by Fred Thompson’s prospects — up to about a month ago. But I’m afraid that, for Thompson, The Moment — to do you-know-what or get off the pot — has passed. Hard to…

In an op-ed published July 16 in the Chicago Tribune, “Using the Internet to Donate Organs,” Tom Simon argued the case for donating a kidney to a stranger via the website Matchingdonors.com. When I made the choice to donate a…

Amen, Quin, amen. Jeez, Jennifer, unwind a little, would you?

At a back yard barbecue last summer, I handed a bag of potato chips to my friend Dan and asked him to open them. I have weakened so badly with kidney failure that I often ask for help with such…

Phil, Dan Jenkins wrote about the time he submitted the wire lead, “Arnold Palmer won the Masters Sunday on greens slicker than Sam Snead’s head.” Editor’s task? Insert “champion golfer” in just such a way as to destroy the rhythm.

A friend of mine wrote me the other day to say he had taken a new job that gave him a lot of time to listen to talk radio. He said he found FM talk “much more civil” than AM…

Wlady and Quin, it’s worse. There is a nasty rumor sweeping the officer corps that the Army will end up being blamed for Iraq, and Bush is doing nothing to dispel that. And did you see John Derbyshire’s observation that…