I've not been taxing you with very much here lately, so no guilt in passing this along. I normally would have urged you to read the whole thing after dangling a bit of an appetizer - a teaser - but this time around it makes more sense just to lay' [...]
As we measure our financial shortcomings in the trillions of dollars - and still climbing - we might want to pause and recall what one man said about the madness of this course more than three years ago: [...]
Those who would persuade us that the recent revelations of irregularities in the work of climate scientists are being taken out of context and do not change the claimed consensus about climate change - extra credit to anyone who can explain what that consensus is in twenty-five words or less [...]
I know, I know. The man is Ivy League educated - a bit of an oxymoron that, and I can also be so described, so I can admit that - and is said to be an accomplished orator to boot. [...]
Somewhere, out beyond the sparkling new skyscrapers, the broad streets filled with modern automobiles, the bustle of a population which, ironically, capitalism has rescued from economic oblivion, you can find scenes like this: [...]
Only because you have been very, very good lately, I will take you back to a New Yorker cartoon of the last century - certainly one of my favorites - for today's smile or remembrance. [...]
Some 45 years ago, the late Barry Goldwater ran for the presidency and was hooted and jeered off the stage by those who believed that the government could provide answers to most, if not all, of the problems of civil society. [...]
Remember when, before the vote to approve the TARP funding early this year - $787 billion - we were told that we would know, with great precision, where the money went and how it was spent for our common benefit? [...]
