by Barry Fagin | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 9-3-09} I don’t usually do back-to-back columns on the same topic. But my last piece on health care reform got such a response from readers that I thought I’d explore the issue a little further. This week, I want to convince...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-20-09} I am opposed to America having a national religion. I don’t care if the party that campaigned for it won the election. I don’t care if Congress calls in the best theologians in the country. As a free American, I...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 21, 2013 | Education, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-6-09} Last Sunday’s Gazette had a story about a center for math tutoring. I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of the owner. His business is a classic example of market success responding to government failure. All the...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-25-09} They don’t get many tourists at the Blockade Museum, and of those that come, none are Americans. Even if you know the right subway stop, it’s still a good fifteen minute walk. And don’t expect any language inside but Russian. An...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 7, 2013 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-11-09} Mikhail Zadornov is very popular in Russia. Which is too bad, because America is not popular with him. Here’s an excerpt from one of his comic routines: “Often my friends ask me ‘Why do you always talk about America...
