If you’re familiar with Thomas Sowell’s concept of competing visions (see this or this) you’ll have a framework for this conversation between Steven Rattner, former counsel to Obama’s Treasury Department, and George Will, on the topic of what should be … Continue reading →
Northern Colorado wants to become the 51st state. The reasons? The rural north has different politics and economic concerns than the more urban south, and feels the latter is crushing it and ignoring its needs. I don’t think this will … Continue reading →
Or maybe at least a notochord? If so, then good: Meeting for the first time as a group to hash out their approach to immigration, House Republicans on Wednesday came down overwhelmingly against a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration … Continue reading →
Have you noticed the spate of concerned statements by Democrats giving Republicans advice about the immigration bill? It always makes me chuckle. How helpful! Such altruism and magnanimity on their part! Which is only what we would expect from the … Continue reading →
America has been so fortunate, and in many ways so outside of history’s darker corridors, that we have forgotten what we should have known, and neglected to teach it to our children. It’s like a population (think Native Americans before … Continue reading →
Pretty great interview with the brilliant Dr. Sowell:
Continue reading →National Journal‘s Ron Fournier (who used to be Washington bureau chief at the AP), is puzzled and perturbed by the disconnect between his preferred vision and the recent news: I like government. I don’t like what the fallout from these … Continue reading →
Ann Althouse wonders whether the result of the recent tsunami of scandals will be that “Everyone becomes cynical and dismissive and won’t even listen to the explanations or pay attention to any specific facts and answers that might emerge.” But … Continue reading →
Peggy Noonan is coming along: Because people think the IRS has always, in various past cases, been used as a political tool, they think we’ll glide through this scandal too. We’ll muddle through, we’ll investigate, the IRS will right itself, … Continue reading →
Since the IRS scandal broke, you see it almost everywhere: statements that Nixon used the IRS to target enemies, often coupled with a claim that what he did was worse than what the IRS has been up to lately. In … Continue reading →
Here’s a little gem I came across the other day. First, though, if you’re not familiar with Thomas Sowell, please hie yourself to YouTube, do a search for his name, and start watching. You’ll find scads of clips of Sowell … Continue reading →
Brad Woodhouse is the Democratic National Committee’s communications director. As such, you’d think he’d understand communications. And so we can assume that when he says something, he means to say it–such as, for example, this message: POTUS asked AG to … Continue reading →