Author: Cogitator

One the myths that refuses to to die is that there is a shortage of engineers, scientists and the like in this country. Various CEOS continually throw up their collective hands and bemoan this ‘fact’ in newspaper...

 Rahmatullah Hashemi was at one point the Taliban’s chief spokesman in Afghanistan. The New York Times Magazine and Chip Brown did a feature on him in late Frebruary 2006, primarily because he is now attending Yale....

Oh, I’m going to do such a despicable thing yet again. Something that upsets ‘sensible’ people, political pundits in particular. I’m class-bashing yet again. Just like the upcoming vote of a federal...

Just what did Jesus have to say about about tax structures? Personal financial portfolios? Offshore corporate tax havens? Municipal bonds? My biblical research has failed to locate any such directives. Various admonitions in the...

With a nod to Winston Churchill, we salute the doughboys and girls of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders who, when they don’t rush to the emergency room with a splinter in their fingers or faint at the sight of an ingrown...