William Neikirk

There was a time many years ago that it was distinctly unfashionable to be ''pro-business.'' When Calvin Coolidge pronounced that the business of America is business, the cognoscenti dismissed it...

The Soviet economy commands wide attention these days from press and politician alike. And what a basket case it is. Economic output has fallen 25 percent. Too many crops rot...

People have long relied on signs. In my small hometown in Kentucky, we depended on the faded, bent sign at the city limits proclaiming the population: 3,200. It seemed to...

Good advocates paint glorious pictures. When they intervene for you with the powerful, they add an extra dash to your skills and personality and sketch little hidden talents unknown even...

In the old days, things were different. How many times have you heard your parents or an older colleague say that? By different, they mean better, of course, since the...

School is out. Children large and small are bringing report cards home, touting good grades as examples of their brilliance and bad ones as someone else`s fault. It`s either the...

One, two, three strikes you`re out, Washington, D.C. Another time at the bat, another sad walk to the dugout, without a major-league baseball team. Perhaps one should be amazed. Here`s...

You give an experienced thief a few tools, and he can quickly gain access to your home. I know that`s so because I have seen it in the movies many...

The growing gap between rich and poor, and even between the rich and the middle class, is now an established fact. The government`s income statistics for the last 15 years...

It is spring, and tax bills are sprouting new buds of hope for the middle class. You know the middle class. It is basically all of us, except for those...