“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching…
“Not ending a sentence with a preposition is a bit of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” Winston Churchill I love that one… I guess it floated…
Seems like pretty much everybody holds a low opinion of economics. It’s boring. Economists are boring. Their predictions are almost always wrong, and they’re constantly trying to force us to…
Much of the content of this blog is focused on the American political system. I make no secret about the fact that much of the action and rhetoric swirling around…
“Argue as if you know you’re right. Listen as if you know you’re wrong.” Jordon Peterson We’re all pretty darned good at arguing as if we know we’re right….
At times it surely does seem like Congress is clueless. The obvious implication is that individual members of Congress are also clueless. Are they really? The sad, but true answer,…
“Suppose you were a member of Congress. And suppose you’re an idiot. But I repeat myself.” Mark Twain Somehow it’s quite comforting to know that Congress has been held in…
I’ve never been a proponent of term limits for Congress. While I doubt any of the Founding Fathers actually used the phrase, “Vote the bums out,” they did indeed write…
