I’ll place this in both the politics and what I’m reading categories. Mann and Ornstein, a liberal and a conservative, have collaborated for decades on (Continue Reading)
I’ll place this in both the politics and what I’m reading categories. Mann and Ornstein, a liberal and a conservative, have collaborated for decades on (Continue Reading)
My daughter and her husband are looking at houses and apartments. They drove through our old neighborhood the other day and she was shocked to (Continue Reading)
From Diane Rheme show: out of incident of sargeant killing Afghan civilians Ass’t Sec’y of Defense under Reagan: he heard Musharraf gave Bush (Continue Reading)
Here’s how I might characterize various political approaches. Let’s say the problem is a disease introduced into Am cattle. Ranchers are spending and losing money, (Continue Reading)
I think we can safely say the GOP has gone nuts.
The United States has never veered too far to the right or left politically. The recent spate of GOP presidential candidates is rewriting this history. (Continue Reading)
These coarse and poisonous positions appeal only to the handful of voters who prefer destructive fury to reason. This came from a NYT editorial, (Continue Reading)
C. Boyden Gray. Sure, he’s a long-time Republican. But with a name like that, you can bet he went to Andover and Princeton, all anethema (Continue Reading)
Over many decades, the GOP, courting the most ignorant, backward people eligible to vote, has found itself transformed from the party of the elites to (Continue Reading)
Where are we going with taxation? Reading, still, The Origins of Political Order, I note on p. 352 how in France the tax burden was (Continue Reading)
ACTFL just sent us members an “urgently needed help” message re FLAP. FL funding is on the chopping block. Yes, by all means, contact your (Continue Reading)
Libertarianism fascinates us early on and arouses our suspicions as we get closer to it. It’s fascination lies in its appeal to freedom for responsible (Continue Reading)
Kurt Anderson wrote a column recently in which he said the folks on the right really believe the crazy stuff they say, like Rick Perry’s (Continue Reading)
The Bachman/Paul victories bode ill for the GOP. Bachmann, despite the unfairness of the Newsweek cover, IS CRAZY, in a non-clinical sense. Ron Paul is (Continue Reading)
Tribal Rifts Threaten to Undermine Libya Uprising This headline from the NYT (Aug. 13, 2011) hit me not because it is unusual – we constantly (Continue Reading)
Should Congress have begun working on cutting expenditures, including entitlements? Sure. Can you blame both Republicans and Democrats? Yes. Just how equal or unequal is (Continue Reading)
My wife and I went to a small meeting of people to pursue the American Dream. This is an off-shoot of Moveon.org and I don’t (Continue Reading)
Reading about the Fords, I was taken back to a time when Republicans were like them. I wrote up my take on what happened but (Continue Reading)
Unable to comprehend history, a good many people take the notion of American exceptionalism and turn into something mystical. It is nothing of the sort. (Continue Reading)
Having read this ……… “If we were a bit more enlightened as a nation, we would never think of cutting successful foreign language programs for (Continue Reading)
I’m referring, of course, to District 26, a Congressional district in western N.Y. state that is rock-ribbed Republican. Rocked indeed by a picture of their (Continue Reading)
Probably the difference between liberals and conservatives is nowhere better observed than in the issue of SB1070. The notion of the police stopping people on (Continue Reading)
Yes, I am fed up with people using the term “Politically Correct” or “PC”. Here’s an example: “The term “world language” seems to be exceedingly (Continue Reading)