geoffrey p. hunt

Experience is More Than a Punched Amtrak Ticket

The Obama campaign asserts with a straight face that Joe Biden's experience, nearly 40 years of Amtrak round trip ticket punching from Union Station to Wilmington, Delaware is of vice presidential...

Bringing Back the Union Label?

Were you around for the steelworkers strike in the early 1980s? The steel industry in the US expired by the end of the decade.

Carbon: the New Chemical Villain

According to the popular press, carbon has now joined toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and cadmium on Peck's Bad Boy list.

A Specter haunts the NFL

Sen. Arlen Specter announced that he wants to have an independent US Senate investigation into how Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner has handled the New England Patriots videogate/spygate cheating...

Obama, the Pardoner, and his Tale

What are we to make of the extraordinary fervor of some of the supporters of Barack Obama?

Why No One Wants to Crack the Health Care Walnut

A few days ago I had dinner with friends from a boutique actuarial services firm. After some chit chat, we soon turned to health care costs, health insurance and, as one would expect in the small...

Man-made Global Warming - So What If It's a Hoax?

A small forest of pulpwood has been clear-cut and thousands of keystrokes have been exhausted by the indispensable media heralds warning us about the looming catastrophe from manmade CO2.