What is it about having billions and billions of dollars? Does it make you stupid? As well as, you know, totally corruupt? Recently, New York Mayor for as long as I damn well feel like it Michael Bloomberg, sounding drunker than Rick Perry, let fly with this one (via counterparties): “It was not the banks…
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The Reagan Myth (Part MCCCLXXVII)
During last night’s Republican debate, Rick Perry, showing remarkable presence of mind when responding to a clip of Ronald Reagan arguing on behalf of higher taxes when coupled with cuts in spending. In his diary, Perry pointed out, Reagan wrote that the Democrats took the tax increases but never delivered on the spending cuts. Of…
Why do the heathen rage? From Perot Party to Tea Party
Yes. As I’ve asked so many times in the past, why do the heathen rage? The Tea Party folks do have roots. Sarah Palin’s self-pitying tirades against the lamestream media could have been lifted, almost word for word, from George Wallace’s attacks on Yankee liberals, biggity Harvard professors looking down their noses (as they most…
Obama-nation: Why do the heathen rage?
The budget deal, whatever it is, has four legs, a collar, and lots of fleas. How did we fall so far so fast? Democrats have to be asking ourselves why each of the last three Democratic presidencies have followed such a similar pattern—high expectations, followed by a severe drop-off in public support. Jimmy Carter infuriated…
Thoughts on the current discontents
What’s happening in the Middle East? Damfino. Robert Darnton thinks it’s 1789. Ann Applebaum thinks it’s 1848. If Ann’s right, things ought to be pretty tight all around the Mediterranean around the year 2150 or so. Take that, Caesar Augustus!1 But what about the home front? Well, I had hoped to comment on Obama’s State…