William John Cox

Last week, hundreds of protesters in St. Paul were arrested outside the Republican National Convention by helmeted police officers wearing black uniforms and full body armor reminiscent of scenes from the 1987 […]

Mr. Obama, it increasingly appears that the presidential election in November will be lost — perhaps not by you, but by the rest of us who are being abandoned along the campaign trail in your race for o […]

The ancient Greek name for Iran was Persis, which was usually spoken with fear — for good reason. At the beginning of the Fifth Century BC, the Persian Empire under Darius the Great was the most threatening f […]

“When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.” — Plato (427 BC – 347 BC), The Republic The United States government is primarily funded by a […]

In the November 1932 elections, Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party lost 34 seats in the Reichstag, leaving the Nazis in the minority with the support of only one-third of the voters. However, after fr […]

“The Universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.“ — George Santayana Americans face an economic and ecological disaster. We have become dependent upon petroleum, a finit […]

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is t […]

Each was elected president of the United States, but George the 43rd possesses none of the courage, intelligence, or wisdom of the first. George Washington was born into a respectable planting family in […]

“Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of […]

I can’t recall the first time I met Sam. I had seen him around the Times building for the past 15 years or so, and from time to time when he would see me on the street, he’d tell me one of my columns “wa […]

In the 1988 movie, Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito play twins resulting from a genetic experiment in which they were separated at birth. Arnold was raised in an island paradise by a private tutor […]

The genius of Albert Einstein was demonstrated by his ability to step aside in his mind and view the universe and its physical laws from a place where the rest of us had never ventured. In proving that time is […]

George W. Bush stole the 2000 election and we let him get away with it. While the Democrats cried because Al Gore had won the vote, the Republicans counted their loot and planned the next heist. Crime does pay […]