I didn't care much for the Senator's politics, but in all fairness, my eulogy of him would sound something like this: ...more

September 6, 2009

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a federal rule allowing people to carry concealed, loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges. ...more

March 19, 2009

crack down on free speech they don't like, that is - is now impossible to deny. ...more

March 8, 2009

CNN says medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta won't be the next surgeon general. ...more

March 5, 2009

A generally accepted premise is expecting different results from the same behavior is completely irrational. During the Reagan administration, David Stockman, Reagan's budget director, persuaded the Republicans to embrace the concepts of supply side economics and the theory that if the top earners earn more it will "trickle down" to the rest of the economy. To achieve this result, major tax cuts for those in the highest tax brackets were implemented, with the result that the national debt was doubled during the Reagan years. ...more

February 14, 2009

As Americans wonder just how horrible the economy will become, this tiny steel town offers a perverse message of hope: Things cannot possibly get any worse than they are here. ...more

February 1, 2009

In the 1980s, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, CIA Director William Casey, Secretary of the Treasury James Baker and Vice President George H. W. Bush all happened to converge where Teresa Imelda O'Gara was standing. ...more

January 30, 2009

Back in the early 1990s, when Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was still considered "the Maestro," I asked him what he thought of the Reagan administration's economic program. I anticipated a discussion of 1980s tax and interest rate policy. That's not what I got. ...more

January 18, 2009

In the 1980s, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, Secretary of the Treasury James Baker and Vice President George H. W. Bush all happened to converge where Teresa Imelda O'Gara was standing. ...more

December 10, 2008

President George W. Bush has been stingier with his authority to grant pardons than any chief executive since World War II. ...more

December 2, 2008