Freeze Tag
As previously mentioned, the school district needs to trim about $18.5 million in order to avoid a tax increase.
Category: politics
Time Enough
Apparently President Obama remarked on education yesterday. For decades, Washington has been trapped in the same stale debates that have paralyzed progress and ...
Preacherman
Was watching a clip on The NewsHour of President Obama’s gathering in Florida today, and was struck by how like an evangelist he was. It doesn’t com...
For All Debts, Public and Private
As a young man with few dollars, I used to spend some time admiring the engraving on those few I had. I’ve long been struck by the phrase printed on Feder...
Economic Stimulus Package: No Taxes
The bank just sent a summary statement of the escrow account we use to pay the local and school property taxes. One achieves a certain distance from the taxatio...
The Third Rail
The third rail on electric railways carries the electrical current. Touching the rail will cause death. By extension, a number of topics in politics have been c...
Interregnum
I’ve seen several references to this time between the election and the inauguration as an interregnum, and many writers expressing concern that President ...
Coerced for My Own Good
H. W. Brands, in his biography of F.D.R., Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, writes, Many of the pro...
Two Sets of Rules
I think my major problem with Mosler’s theories is that there are two sets of rules. The second set only applies to the the issuer of the fiat currency. I...
Lies We Learned in High School
For such a smart fellow, you’d think that Matthew Yglesias would not regurgitate the standard economic history of the Great Depression drummed into all of...
Someone Needs More Crayons
The graphic artists at The New York Times, CNN, and pretty much every other outlet providing maps of the election results need to be provided with more than a p...
Haste Makes Waste
Sandy Levinson, who finds it a horror that our defective Constitution allows the out-going President to stay in office past the election, would not take comfort...
The Disarming Power of Words
We TiVo’d the last debate, and watched it again just now. Others have summarized it much more pithily, or eviscerated the candidates with more gusto, but ...
Bedfellows
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, they say, and the Republican primary in New York’s 99th assembly district is a case in point. The incumbent, Greg B...
Double Jeopardy and Guilt by Association
Were criminal charges brought against William Ayers? Was he found guilty? Did he serve his time? If not, why not? Meanwhile, apparently living in the same neigh...
On Affordable Housing
Housing is affordable if the price is low enough for one to afford it. How does inflating the prices through increasing leverage make them more affordable?
Backed by the Full Faith and Credit of the United States
The key word there is faith.
But We Have to do Something!
There is a propensity for politicians, and in truth all of us, to act hastily when the times call rather for patience and calm. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), in ...