Pencils and Cell Phones
Perhaps you have read the short story "I, Pencil" by economist Leonard Read. He takes you through all the steps necessary to make a pencil and concludes that "nobody knows how to make a pencil." To m...
Child Sexual Offenders
For a moment, I want to talk about a subject many of us would rather avoid. But we cannot avoid it if we are concerned about our children and the children in our schools and churches. Recently I had B...
Rewriting the First Amendment
Some members of Congress want to rewrite the First Amendment. Although it is unlikely that they will succeed, it is worth looking at what they propose in order to understand the mindset of some of our...
