Why we envy the Mad Men and Women
Despite the dress codes and other strict rules of conduct, the men and women of “Mad Men” had a rather good time. Or was it because of the rules?
Democrats pay price for health-care circus
Democrats would be so much better off today had they given up their fruitless quest for bipartisanship last year and nailed down the health-care reforms two months earlier.
DEMOCRATS MADE THEIR OWN LUMPY BED
Tags: Democrats, health care, politics, Republicans, Washington
The real JetBlue heroes
Steven Slater’s tale didn’t last as long as his 15 minutes of fame. Had it been true, however, he still would have been no hero of mine.
Tags: culture
John Kerry, his yacht, and his taxes
John Kerry’s example offers several lessons for makers of tax policy — though not the ones Republicans intended.
REPUBLICANS OVERBOARD ON YACHTSMAN KERRY
Tags: Democrats, Massachusetts, Republicans, Rhode Island
The real immigration story
The drama in Arizona belies the real action on the immigration front. The Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal aliens and going after employers of them with unprecedented vigor. This is
Tags: Arizona, immigration, Latinos, Obama
Raise taxes to cut government?
So much for the starve-the-beast theory whereby cutting taxes leads to smaller government. Our two leading tax-cutting presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, advocated that theory, then expanded government with borrowed money. Clever fellows.
Another theory based on the “fiscal illusion” effect holds that raising taxes is a more effective way to contain government than cutting them.
I discuss that thinking in my new column:
RAISE TAXES TO CUT GOVERNMENT?
Tags: Democrats, economics, Republicans, taxes
I get it, Rush Limbaugh doesn’t like me
There are too many things to do on this glorious Sunday for me to linger on a response to an exchange on Friday’s Rush Limbaugh Show that questioned my honesty and work ethic, not to mention my intelligence.
To country boy, all I can say is, “Aw shucks.”
Anyone wanting to know what I wrote can read it here.
BTW, 2000 is not a great year to assess the revenues raised off the dot-com bubble. The dot-com market crashed that March.
Tags: media, Rush Limbaugh, taxes
Thank you, Richard Reeves…
for generously praising my recent primal scream on what peoples’ answers to the pollsters’ questions really mean.
Hint: Being angry over ” the direction of the country” does not necessarily translate into support for the Republican Party. It may well mean the opposite.
Tags: Democrats, Obama, politics, polls, Republicans, Washington
The survival of the meanest in the city backyard
Now for something completely different. . .
My new column describes the brutality of the birdbath — the fight for survival underneath the pastoral scene of a city garden.
WILD KINGDOM IN THE CITY BACKYARD
Tags: cities, environment, nature
Democratic rout no sure thing
Do we like the direction of the country? No. Are Republicans the answer? Hell no.
REPUBLICAN VOODOO PUT US ON THIS PATH
Tags: conservatives, Democrats, politics, polls, Republicans, Washington
