President Obama's proposal to extend the 2.9% Medicare tax from its current base (wages and self-employment income) has been met with cries of socialism, Obamanation, and a number of less printable la...

We Americans overwhelmingly want to eliminate the use of pre-existing conditions to deny health care coverage.  At the same time, we don't want to be forced to buy health insurance when we don't ...

As I lawyer, I have often been asked why high-priced lawyers can't seem to be able to write a contract that is litigation proof.  The lawyers tasked with contract drafting certainly have a number...

I turned 61 a few days ago.  This morning, for the first time since my birthday, I rode a city bus in Chicago.  I was lucky enough to actually get a seat.  It was in the priority seatin...

Many of us seek change.  Some want school vouchers.  Others want smaller classrooms.  Some want quality health coverage for everyone.  Others want cost reduction.  Some want t...

Two proposals to reduce climate change risk, "cap and trade" and a carbon tax, have floated to the top. Others, like "tax and dividend," fight for recognition. Properly administered, both of the front...

A fourteenth century Franciscan friar, William of Ockham, proposed a scientific principle that is now called Ockham's Razor.  Although Friar Ockham's principle has been variously explained over t...

It has been reported that 99% of green advertising claims are false; the OECD is concerned that biofuels do more harm than good; and various scholars wonder whether ethanol is a bane or a benefit.&nbs...

We continue to fight the same semantic battles that Darwin fought almost two centuries ago.   "Heretic," "infidel," "creationism" have been replaced by "theory not fact," "strengths and weak...

During the heat of the last congressional and presidential election, Republican Robin Hayes told a crowd that "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God."&nb...