"Meredith McIver" is allegedly a public speaker  who apparently is too timid to speak to the public.  Whether she existed or not w...

Today’s Big News : Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially encouraging an adver...

Germany today is a parliamentary democracy.  However, within the Eurozone some find that Germany exercises power over macroeconomic policy b...

I always Google my headline ideas to try to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. I was thinking of the title for this post as I was looking a...

In Doctor Strangelove , General Ripper explains to Captain Mandrake why Clemenceau's dictum on war is now obsolete: He said war was t...

If I told you that Trump lies a lot – you might laugh that we all know that. But it is interesting when even the Wall Street Journal is ref...

The Republican national convention has now ended, and it marks another major move in the descent of  America to becoming a becoming a banana...

The Wall Street Journal is generating an orgy of lump-of-labor headlines. Yesterday there was  The Rise of Zero-Sum Economics  by Greg Ip. ...

Tiger Blood of the Daily Beast has an interesting scoop: A multi-level marketer who peddles pseudoscience—and whose product is endorsed by...

John Fitzgerald offers a lot of insights on the Irish GDP accounting issue: The so called “patent cliff”. Because the pharmaceutical secto...

"Trump himself has not (yet) plagiarized anything."  Karen Topham wrote at Huffington Post. Let's reconsider. Plagiarism is...

It should come as no surprise that the objects of plagiarism are typically banal, trite and intellectually worthless themselves. Shallow m...

“It was a little cocker spaniel dog… and our little girl—Tricia, the 6-year-old—named it Checkers.”

An open letter to John Cochrane and Jennifer Rubin Dear John Cochrane and Jennifer Rubin,  I read with interest your column , Jennifer, ...

On July 11 Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave a speech in the US Senate denouncing funding of global warming denying scientists and public...