January 16, 2012
Martin Luther King: Free Market Reformer
I wrote this last year and thought it was pretty good, so I am reposting it this year. Barack Obama. Oprah Winfrey. Robert Johnson. Dick Parsons. Bill Cosby. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. It goes without saying that all of these...
January 14, 2012
Revenge of the Canadian Teachers
Revenge of the Canadian Teachers Mitt Romney has been put through the ringer for something that a bunch of Canadian teachers did. My question today is: What did the Massachusetts Moderate ever do to those Canucks anyway? In case you...
January 13, 2012
The Old Bull Exit
The Old Bull Exit When I first started on Capitol Hill (23 years ago…man, I am getting old), I was not terribly sophisticated in the world of politics. For example, I couldn’t quite come to grips that one of the...
January 12, 2012
The Bain of Mitt
The Bain of Mitt The central debate of the upcoming Presidential campaign is now engaged. The unbridled capitalist vs. the putative socialist. Creative destruction vs. centralized planning. It is useful that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are the first to...
January 11, 2012
Shining City on the Hill
Shining City on the Hill Twenty-three years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave his exit address where he spoke eloquently about John Winthrop’s famed “Shining City Upon a Hill.” I only know this because I was listening to Tim Farley’s most...
January 10, 2012
Learning to Love Mitt Romney
Learning to Love Mitt Romney The first Republican to ever win both the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary in the same election cycle is under attack by both the Obama Administration and several of his challengers in the...