Oh, here’s a scary thought. It’s already 2014. I don’t even know what happened to the “naughts” or whatever we were going to get around to naming that decade. And now we’re a seventh of the way from the 20th to the 22nd century. Click here to read the rest.
Apparently there’s this deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Butwe’re not sure if it’s a historic achievement, a historic blunder or just historically trivial.
What is it with JFK? Why the enduring fascination? Click here to read the rest.
Even The New York Times has noticed there’s something odd about Barack Obama lurching aimlessly from crisis to crisis like some leftover Halloween zombie unable to find any brains. Click here to read the rest.
To put this U.S. government shutdown in perspective, forget for a moment that all right-thinking persons know Republicans are ignorant fanatical bigots and imagine it was happening in Canada. Click here to read the rest.
Almost 20 years ago, Bill Clinton said “The era of big government is over.” He was lying, of course. But for a reason: To convince voters he wasn’t too dumb to grasp that painful experience over at least three decades had proved big compulsory bureaucratic state programs weren’t just wasteful but actively harmful. So why do politicians go on creating them in response to every problem, real or imagined? Click here to read the rest.