How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

In Michael McManus’s recent column he denounced young people for “sexual liberty” with the admonition that a young lady should be living with her mother and father and not having to give up her virginity to be “like her peers.” Then he said “she can be a virgin until she gets married.” Not a word […]

Once again we witness how intelligent, well-meaning committee members create strange and unfair new rules, this time on the matter of boat mooring regulations. How does this happen? Now Brunswick shorefront property owners can have a mooring, or even the three they have now, but those of us who don’t own at least 100 feet […]

Douglas Rooks’s Monday op-ed prematurely decried state legislative Democrats failure to speak out about the governor’s extreme budget/ tax reduction proposals. At least equally important is, where are legislative Republicans on the various elements of the administration’s plans. However, in my thinking there is another large, influential group in our state of people who are […]

Forty-two years ago, I was a young Navy medic at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, part of its sea-air rescue team. While training in rappelling, miles from base, out in some live crevasse fields, I was shocked by unexpected company upon reaching the bottom of a deep chasm. There, in otherwise pristine remoteness at the bottom […]

Jonathan Gruber was, in the lower courts, the government’s principal expert. They relied on his “three-legged stool” metaphor to argue that (even though the law says they are only available through an “exchange established by the state”) subsidies must be available through federal exchanges. Then he was caught on tape, not once but twice, expressly […]