So Ron Paul has released his plan to cut one trillion from the budget and balance the budget in three years. Well, I don’t like it. Here is a nonexhaustive list of reasons why, 1. Ron Paul cuts 2013 Medicaid spending to a level 30% lower than the Ryan budget (and . . . . Continue Reading »
They’re vital, at least, for those not wanting to apply the brain to Mr. Cain. 1.) It sounds like John Presnall is right about that documentary by Crowe on Pearl Jam, but I now have a slight interest in it, because the apparently poor choice of rockumentary material might indicate . . . . Continue Reading »
Surely one needs to realize that when you stake all your life on your music then there could be the chance of an ultimate failure as a result of one’s efforts. Like the thousands of pretty blondes whose lives get destroyed in the effort of becoming the next Jayne Mansfield or Cameron Diaz, why . . . . Continue Reading »
It hasn’t shown up in the polls yet, but Cain is melting right in front of us. For those keeping score, the simple and transparent 9-9-9 plan is now a 9-9-9 plan except when it is a 9-0-9 plan except when it is a 9-0-9 plan with a special empowerment zone discount. Oh, and it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, he’s not. I just wanted to make a dumb blond joke. And it’s not like it’s wrong for someone to calll attention to the downside of Thatcherism. But if our friend the crunchy yet conservative Mr. Dreher is right, he’s confused. He criticizes America for being hobbled by . . . . Continue Reading »
Everything’s been coming up Whit Stillman for me lately. Re-watched Barcelona, for various reasons found myself reading both Jane Austen and Lionel Trilling, and then my wife gave me the scripts of Barcelona and Metropolitan for my birthday. Here’s a reflection a couples years ago about . . . . Continue Reading »
I tentatively suggested that Herman could survive the 9s. But he can’t set himself up on the non-flipfloppy right of Romney if he’s proclaims himself pro-choice on abortion. So it turns out he doesn’t really understand the issue, and he really doesn’t have competent . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE . The guy who invented that curve reminds us that Herman’s plan is all about supply-side economics. Everyone, the thought is, will be better off. Cain needs to sign him up. . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . and those who do are in the thrall of illusions that produce evildoing. (Food for Porcher thought?) . . . . Continue Reading »
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