Perceptions
The newspaper says there’s a problem, but is there really? via Tom Palmer, David Cay Johnston wonders the same thing. In a letter to his fellow journalist...
Category: politics
Angling for Satisfaction
The excerpts from, and an interview with the author of, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency are disturbing, and reinforce what we already suspected. In what I ho...
Depression
(some observations, which I’ll hopefully clean up and form into a coherent post) Some say the financial crisis is a market failure, fixable by regulation;...
When Pigs Fly
I tend to agree with Greg Mankiw — more generally with Arthur Pigou — on his recommendation to increase certain taxes in order to cover the external...
Greetings, Sports Fans!
Watching the Presidential caucus race is, for me at least, akin to watching baseball. It helps to look at it as a team sport, with a rivalry as deep-seated as t...
The Circus Subsidy
Ancient Rome gave away bread. We give away television. % of television-watching population which receives their television signal over-the-air, and will be affe...
A Reminder
In this political season, it’s helpful to remember that it’s all about popular. … think of Celebrated heads of state, Or specially great commu...
Internal Improvements
I read in The Poughkeepsie Journal the other day that Dutchess County is considering widening 1.8 miles of Noxon Road, and that the project requires Federal app...
Foreign Oil Slicks
The speakers at the Republican convention are harping on exploiting domestic energy sources in order to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil. Because...
When You Grow Up, You Can Be President
There seems to be some frustration over John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Most of what I’ve read...
Go Wake Up the Judge
You know how in the movies, when the cops want to bust in on the mob doing their dirty deeds, first they go wake up the judge in the middle of the night, or dra...
Dear Senator Obama
Are you trying to lose our votes, or just revealing your interest in unrestrained Executive power now that you feel it is within your grasp?
Remember, They Are Your Representatives
Dear Congressman Hall: Thank you for your thoughtful and considered response to the concerns expressed in my mail of February 15th this year. Unfortunately, I r...
Picking off the small, specific segments of the activist wing of the party
While Barack Obama currently has an edge over John McCain in the general election, he should take steps to remove the interest of those small, specific segments...
Setting the Stage
I’m currently reading April 1865, an excellent book covering the events of the last month of the Civil War, which reminds us that how wars end is often of...
What is the Unifying Core of the Party?
Justin Logan at Cato
Alternate Campaign Realities
What if the Republican delegates were allocated proportionally, like the Democratic delegates are? Or vice versa?
Every Now and Again a Writer Takes a Plane
Peggy Noonan is tired of the security theater at the airport. Why do we do this when you know I am not a terrorist, and you know I know you know I am not a terr...
Same as Anyone Else
Oh, look, it appears that we’ll make the Arabs happy by leaving them alone. Who knew?