Boehner is grandstanding here, IMHO. Not gonna happen—although if they had any integrity, they would have voluntarily resigned long ago. And even if it did happen—who would replace them? I can’t imagine it would be an improvement. No, the fish … Continue reading →
Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man—a book about the Great Depression—applies herself to the economic differences between Maine and New Hampshire today. As a New Englander, I know these two states (and Vermont and Massachusetts and Connecticut and Rhode … Continue reading →
Part of the lively discussion recently on this thread and then this one centered on the plight of Michigan Democrats who are disillusioned with what their party’s done for them lately, and who are thinking of switching to (gasp!) the … Continue reading →
Joel Kotkin details the rise, and then the perplexing decline and fall, of the great state of California. It turns out that Californians were the barbarians at their own gates; it was an act of self-destruction, fueled by the unforeseen … Continue reading →
Ah, have sympathy for us poor (in the literal sense of the word) boomers, even though many of you hate our aging guts: …[C]urrent and prospective retirees have been hit on many fronts at once: They have less money, they … Continue reading →
Please read this cri de coeur, found on a comments page at the WaPo, written by commenter “sayoung809132001” and posted on August 7, 2010 at 1:07:14 PM,: I urge the new republicans who are now running to reach out to … Continue reading →
Why is Oakland having to cut back on its police services, to the point of not responding to forty-four categories of crime, including grand theft? As Josh Barro writes, it depends on what the meaning of “afford” is: At current … Continue reading →
Here we go again: another 2000-plus-page bill that is a pastiche of disparate elements that no one quite understands. It doesn’t do much to change the things that contributed most to the financial debacle in the first place (including both … Continue reading →
Ah, those evil health insurance companies, refusing to enroll sick people in their individual programs (although they were covered in large group insurance), and forcing them into high risk pools. Greedy nasty capitalists, sucking our blood like the vampires they … Continue reading →
This book sounds interesting: Like a pair of financial sleuths, Ms. Reinhart and her collaborator from Harvard, Kenneth S. Rogoff, have spent years investigating wreckage scattered across documents from nearly a millennium of economic crises and collapses. They have wandered … Continue reading →
One of Obama’s biggest boosters, Eleanor Clift of Newsweek, bemoans the fact that somehow, the great articulator/communicator/orator has failed to clarify his economic policy. Oh, if only he could explain to the slow-on-the-draw people the big picture—which is, which is…what, … Continue reading →
…to the Democratic Party and to the nation. The former, however, may not realize that fact, and can’t or won’t get rid of her, due to the power she’s amassed and her ability to pass legislation that an increasingly left-leaning … Continue reading →