February 1, 2012
Class Warfare Within the GOP
Mitt Romney won a big victory and that win should propel him to the nomination sometime by June, given the vagaries of the proportional delegate system put in place by the Republican National Committee. But Romney shouldn’t feel that comfortable...
January 31, 2012
Capitalism and Slavery Don’t Mix
In 1956, Kenneth Stampp, a historian from the University of California at Berkely, wrote the seminal book about slavery. Called The Peculiar Institution, the book destroyed the myth of a benign, paternalistic southern society, popularized by such movies as “Gone...
January 31, 2012
The GOP Primary Decoded
This originally appeared in The Hill The Republican Party seems to be in a state of complete chaos. Right-wing conservatives, like Ann Coulter, bitterly attack Newt Gingrich, while Tea Party heroes like Erick Erickson continually eviscerate Mitt Romney. Media heavyweight...
January 30, 2012
The Income Inequality Myth
A smart guy emailed me over the weekend with a very provocative assertion: All of this income inequality stuff is over-blown political rhetoric. He makes a compelling case. Instead of paraphrasing it, I am going to let the smart guy...
January 29, 2012
No More Goldman Sachs Bailouts
Sanjeev Mehra, Chairman of the Board of Hawker Beechcraft and a top executive at Goldman Sachs was memorably quoted as saying “the rumors of the death of private equity are premature.” He would know. As one of the most prominent...
January 27, 2012
Mitt the Mexican
There were two really good moments for Mitt Romney is last night’s debate. One was his smack-down of Newt Gingrich’s moon colony remarks. I am in favor of a moon colony, by the way, but Newt only trotted out his...