March 19, 2004 -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry hit a small bump in what he hopes will be his road to the White House. He recently said on the American Urban Radio Network that, "President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second." But rather than receiving praise from the people to whom he was pandering, he was criticized, with some black leaders demanding an apology.
January 26, 2006 -- BB&T, a major bank with branches through the Southeast, has taken a stand for private property and individual rights....
On August 25, 1609 Galileo first demonstrated the telescope to Venetian officials and then proceeded to point it at the night skies in order
October 19, 2009 -- Ask the Norwegians who pick the Nobel Peace Prize recipient this question: “Which part of Europe are you from? The part
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has staffed-up in anticipation of hundreds of bank failures. Major investment banks are on
August 28, 2009 -- Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty seemed silent and secretive about acting in the self-interest of his own children. As
March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago
One would think that the invention of a new device that could keep patients with serious heart problems alive would be a cause for....
Understanding evolution has helped us satisfy that quintessential human longing expressed by Aristotle: “All men, by nature, desire to....
James Cameron’s new film Avatar is loaded with fresh, eye-popping special effects, all in a new, cutting-edge 3-D that sets the standard....
I first visited West Berlin in June 1981. I took the closed American military train through the 112-mile-long corridor through....
The December of 1989 marked the end of one of the most extraordinary six months of the century....
March 6. 2009 -- Republicans and conservatives are not synonymous, nor are conservatives and friends of freedom. But after the 2008 Republic
October 12, 2008 -- Important truths about human nature and morality have been on display in the 2008 presidential campaign. Voters are angry as they watch the stock market and their retirement accounts collapse. They are angry as they see CEOs of collapsed financial institutions walking away with huge compensation packages, seeming rewards for their failures. And they are angry at Congress and the Bush administration further rewarding them with a $700 billion bailout.
May 1, 2009—Republicans can both boo and cheer Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party. It’s a heavy blow for them to lose their
April 22, 2005 -- Today is a religious holiday that should make us all into atheists. April 22, 2005, marks the 35th anniversary of Earth
Entertainment celebrities with leftist political views are hardly anything new. What is unusual, however, is for one to reveal the deep
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s sudden change from the Republican to the Democratic Party has left Republicans with mixed feelings: rag
So much has been written about the 9-11 terrorist attacks that it is difficult to add much that is new or enlightening...
June 2, 2011 -- Oral arguments in the back-dated options case of Greg Reyes (pictured below) were conducted on May 10 and can now be heard on-line— here . To recall the facts of the case: During part of the time when Greg Reyes was CEO of Brocade, the company’s SEC filings failed to follow a commission rule in accounting for options issued to employees. (The rule is known as APB 25, and I have explained elsewhere why it is utterly absurd .) But Reyes was not charged merely with violating the SEC’s technical accounting and bookkeeping regulations. He was prosecuted for committing a criminal fraud. The prosecutors’ argument was that Reyes had purposely violated the APB 25 accounting regulation in order to avoid treating employee stock options as an expense, thereby inflating Brocade’s apparent earnings and deceiving investors about the worth of the company’s stock, which of course he held.
March 19, 2004 -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry hit a small bump in what he hopes will be his road to the White House. He recently said on the American Urban Radio Network that, "President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second." But rather than receiving praise from the people to whom he was pandering, he was criticized, with some black leaders demanding an apology.
January 26, 2006 -- BB&T, a major bank with branches through the Southeast, has taken a stand for private property and individual rights....
On August 25, 1609 Galileo first demonstrated the telescope to Venetian officials and then proceeded to point it at the night skies in order
October 19, 2009 -- Ask the Norwegians who pick the Nobel Peace Prize recipient this question: “Which part of Europe are you from? The part
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has staffed-up in anticipation of hundreds of bank failures. Major investment banks are on
August 28, 2009 -- Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty seemed silent and secretive about acting in the self-interest of his own children. As
March 18, 2005 -- Last week Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman, expressed concern that the four men who gang raped her nearly three years ago
One would think that the invention of a new device that could keep patients with serious heart problems alive would be a cause for....
Understanding evolution has helped us satisfy that quintessential human longing expressed by Aristotle: “All men, by nature, desire to....
James Cameron’s new film Avatar is loaded with fresh, eye-popping special effects, all in a new, cutting-edge 3-D that sets the standard....
I first visited West Berlin in June 1981. I took the closed American military train through the 112-mile-long corridor through....
The December of 1989 marked the end of one of the most extraordinary six months of the century....
March 6. 2009 -- Republicans and conservatives are not synonymous, nor are conservatives and friends of freedom. But after the 2008 Republic
October 12, 2008 -- Important truths about human nature and morality have been on display in the 2008 presidential campaign. Voters are angry as they watch the stock market and their retirement accounts collapse. They are angry as they see CEOs of collapsed financial institutions walking away with huge compensation packages, seeming rewards for their failures. And they are angry at Congress and the Bush administration further rewarding them with a $700 billion bailout.
May 1, 2009—Republicans can both boo and cheer Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party. It’s a heavy blow for them to lose their
April 22, 2005 -- Today is a religious holiday that should make us all into atheists. April 22, 2005, marks the 35th anniversary of Earth
Entertainment celebrities with leftist political views are hardly anything new. What is unusual, however, is for one to reveal the deep
Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s sudden change from the Republican to the Democratic Party has left Republicans with mixed feelings: rag
So much has been written about the 9-11 terrorist attacks that it is difficult to add much that is new or enlightening...
June 2, 2011 -- Oral arguments in the back-dated options case of Greg Reyes (pictured below) were conducted on May 10 and can now be heard on-line— here . To recall the facts of the case: During part of the time when Greg Reyes was CEO of Brocade, the company’s SEC filings failed to follow a commission rule in accounting for options issued to employees. (The rule is known as APB 25, and I have explained elsewhere why it is utterly absurd .) But Reyes was not charged merely with violating the SEC’s technical accounting and bookkeeping regulations. He was prosecuted for committing a criminal fraud. The prosecutors’ argument was that Reyes had purposely violated the APB 25 accounting regulation in order to avoid treating employee stock options as an expense, thereby inflating Brocade’s apparent earnings and deceiving investors about the worth of the company’s stock, which of course he held.