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Life and politics

Balcerowicz for president

The WSJ published an interview with Leszek Balcerowicz. Sometimes it feels good to be Polish. I remember Mr. Balcerowicz...

Dec 16, 2012

What can one learn in Springfield?

This is my question for Thomas F. Roeser, in response to his critique of the political inexperience of Adam...

Jun 3, 2009

More brains, less Halliburton: why Dick Cheney is wrong

In his first interview after leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that Obama’s policies “raise the risk”...

Mar 20, 2009

Leave radical Islam alone

A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria questioned our mostly military response to radical Islam. Readers, both at the Huffington...

Mar 17, 2009

The simplest plan for helping homeowners

Some banks gave mortgage loans to people who cannot keep a house under any conditions. These so-called toxic assets...

Feb 15, 2009

Obama’s first fault as President

It is in asking for delaying the digital TV transition. Some people still did not get the message about...

Jan 27, 2009

The lure of Keynesianism

In his recent column, Prof. Robert Reich is saying that the rich are getting richer and the poor are...

Jan 15, 2009

The immigration debate is not about immigration

The immigration debate is not about immigration but about how deeply the government should put its fingers into micromanaging...

Dec 9, 2008

Do Americans want change?

Yes, if change means that their personal well being would improve. No, if they would need change what they...

Nov 18, 2008

Change of change

Most of the problems that Barack Obama will face are big problems because most Americans are wrong in their...

Nov 9, 2008
Remark of the day

Will AI make programmers obsolete?

July 14, 2025
Artificial intelligence, Life and politics

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said, “There’s a new programming language. It’s called English.” He works with people who are skilled enough to formulate programming tasks in any language. So his view is skewed. The rest of us should know that once knowing English made America great the first time around. Now, the same language divides Americans to the point that dystopian visions propagate. The language is not important, but what our mind can say. And this is where the stairs begin. Good programmers do not lose their sleep; they instruct AI in English on how to perform routine coding when tackling the tough stuff.

Will the U.S. endure for another 250 years?

July 05, 2025
Life and politics, Media

Instead of a celebratory commentary on Independence Day, Michael Smerconish reminded us tha...

Israel against Gaza and Iran

June 19, 2025
Life and politics

Gaza is a thorn in Israel’s politics. There are still speculations about why the attac...

Are comparisons to Hitler justifiable?

April 26, 2025
Life and politics, Media

In the criticism of the Trump administration’s concepts and methods of implementation, some see parallels to ...

When will DOGE be credible?

March 28, 2025
Life and politics

The interview at FOX sounded good. In the early 1990s, I was looking to expand my ...