Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

I can think of a number of areas in New York where three acres of nuclear waste would make the neighborhood safer to walk around in than it is now, and better lit.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.