Month: August 2011

It’s kind of fascinating to follow the discussion about the scheduling of the president’s appearance before a Joint Session of Congress on Twitter. Think about this. The president finally did something really...

The Texas Tribune reviews Rick Perry’s book Fed Up! so you don’t have to read it yourself. It appears to me that Mr. Perry is a socially-conservative libertarian of the worst sort. He wants the federal government to...

I remember a Twilight Zone episode called “How to Serve Man.” Benevolent large-headed, bug-eyed, space creatures came to Earth to serve humanity. They cured diseases, improved the living standards of the planet, and...

You haven’t seen much of me around these here parts lately, which some of you may consider a a blessing. The reason for my absence of posts is threefold. One, I became a more than a little burned out over the debt ceiling...

I don’t want to overhype the developing divisions in Libya, but don’t say I didn’t warn you that tribal and regional factions would emerge and fight over the spoils of power once Gaddafi was driven out....