Carter Redux
I recently visited an old friend who’s been through some trouble in his personal life: a death in his family and the death of his …
Now Fear This
The cycle of hype-to-panic-to- retrenchment that followed the recent outbreak of swine flu was entirely predictable. Same with hurricanes, same with terrorism, same with shark …
Pandering
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer has begun an attempt at reputational rehabilitation. His main device has been a series of columns spewing conventional wisdom …
Guarding the Asylum
Says Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao: “We have made a huge amount of loans to the United States. Of course, we are concerned about the safety …
Value-less
For years Warren Buffett was, by most reckonings, the richest man in the United States. And for years, as if to confound his fans and …
Slack Jawing
The administration’s response to the current economic recession and the mainstream media’s coverage of the resulting statist schemes has degraded political rhetoric. During W. Bush’s …
Making Sense of the Census
The Obama administration’s talk of transferring oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau from the Department of Commerce to the White House staff turned over a …
Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic
The boneheaded economic stimulus package authored by the president and forwarded by the Democratic Congress aims to push the federal government deeper into debt in …
Counter-programming
I was going to do a complete analysis of the rhetoric and political effects of conservative talk radio hosts and the three stooges – Limbaugh, …
After the Surge
Early January saw Clinton and McCain win their respective party primaries in New Hampshire; but a more important development for some libertarians came a few …