There’s a popular saying.  There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.  Another saying comes to mind.  Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.  Politicians are fond of using spurious statistics to justify their prevarications.  And so it was this week of skyrocketing oil prices, which have driven the price of regular gasoline above $4.25 a gallon […]

At the beginning of World War II, in September 1939, the Nazis invaded Poland with armored divisions that swept across the country.  This came to be known as blitzkrieg, the lightening war.  In the wake of the fall of Poland, although the major European powers had declared war on Germany, and indeed were at war, […]