April 4, 2013
Travel Day
Today was a travel day. And from the looks of the weather, it didn’t look like it was going to be an easy one. The weatherman predicted heavy showers. The area around Tampa Bay was under a Tornado Watch. And...
April 3, 2013
The View from the Sunshine State
We travel to Florida for Spring Break. It’s our mini-version of a family tradition. And of course, we are not alone in that tradition. Families (and college kids) have been doing that for decades. From Florida, you can get a...
April 2, 2013
The Self-Service World
More than 2 million clerical jobs have been wiped out since 2007. That’s according to the Financial Times, and it helps to explain why the median U.S. income has declined 5.6 percent despite the fact that the economy has largely...
April 1, 2013
The World According to David Stockman
In case you didn’t see it, Ronald Reagan’s former Budget Director David Stockman just released a new book and had an excerpt in the New York Times yesterday. Stockman basically believes that American-style capitalism is inherently corrupt, that Ben Bernanke...
March 29, 2013
The Soup is Not Ready Yet
The soup is not quite simmering, yet some conservatives are too anxious to serve it to the American people. The soup is Obamacare, and for some activists, House Republicans are not being aggressive enough to serve its repeal. Patience, my...
March 28, 2013
Brave New World
In 1931, Aldous Huxley wrote his satirical novel about a world divided into castes, where recreation, not procreation, was the primary purpose of sex, where children were mostly created in test-tubes, where society was managed by a big world government...