This week the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Vicky Crawford vs. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. ...more

January 30, 2009

I have never been an advocate of the popular notion that "everyone should vote." ...more

August 12, 2008

Supreme Court Ruling Applauded I applaud the decision of the United States Supreme Court regarding the Second Amendment. ...more

June 29, 2008

This dream has legs. In a decision sure to spur debate, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double lower-leg amputee who runs 400-meter races on carbon-fiber blades, has won the right to compete for a spot in the Beijing Olympics. ...more

May 17, 2008

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., believed that the highest principles of liberty were enshrined in America's founding documents and that one key to securing equal justice for all was to make certain that Americans remembered - and remained true to - their national heritage. ...more

January 21, 2008

'Super Crunchers,' by Ian Ayres (Bantam, $25) This book makes a strong argument that super crunching, the use of huge amounts of statistical data to predict an outcome, is challenging the ages-old dependence on human experience and expertise. ...more

October 7, 2007