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The Giant Stumbles 27 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
WHEN BARACK OBAMA won a second term, many conservatives and libertarians despaired. It seemed that the tipping point between the “makers and the takers,” between a constitutional republic and a social...
An Open Letter to Scott Brown 27 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm
Scott Brown doesn’t get it. We like the former Senator. He scored a genuine coup in winning the Massachusetts Senate seat left vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy, even if only temporarily. However. ...
Homeless Fed Analyst 27 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm
Monday Unlike most of the stories you read about Hollywood, this one really happened. At about 10:30 tonight, I realized I was low on gasoline. There was a gas station nearby on Sunset Strip with mod...
Running Backward 27 Aug 2013 | 03:08 pm
Something odd is going on with United States foreign and defense policy. To begin with it is obvious that the political leverage of the U.S. with Egypt is embarrassingly weak – perhaps even non-existe...
The New ‘Equality’ Principle 27 Aug 2013 | 03:08 pm
A news story out of New Mexico reminds us how hard it has lately become to be an American: a traditional American, I should say, concerned with trivial stuff like conscience and faith and personal int...
The Mental Side of Tennis 27 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Although Olga Govortsova, who is from Minsk, a city in Belarus, stands six feet and weighs in at 150 pounds, she was crushed by the mighty Li Na, the most famous Chinese athlete in the world, in their...
The Act of Killing 27 Aug 2013 | 03:03 pm
It’s a truism that war robs us of our capacity for self-identification with others — or at least with those others whom we designate as “the enemy.” The act of killing would obviously be impossible wi...
A Poignant Anniversary 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and of the Reverend Martin Luther King’s memorable “I have a dream” speech, is a time for reflections — some inspiring, and some painful and ominous. ...
Sorry, Obamacare Isn’t Better Than ‘No Plan’ 26 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm
As they watch Obamacare shudder and smoke through the final countdown to its January liftoff, some of its advocates have discreetly eased away from the launch pad to avoid political injury when the ra...
Love and Bliss in Beverly Hills 26 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
Saturday Here we are back in Beverly Hills. I don’t feel well. Nevertheless, I got up, paid some bills — my never ending curse, my own foolishness — and then went for lunch with Phil DeMuth at the Bev...
