Month: February 2017

As the online Concise Encyclopedia of Economics puts it: The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people–and especially of government–always have effects that are...

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be starting a new painting.  It is actually the other side of the Cold Spring, NY street scene that was the subject of the last project.  The photo that I’m using is...

The CIA-owned and operated Washingtoon Post and some fellow travelers have weighed in on Elizabeth Warren’s Coretta King Senate stunt, and they don’t like it one bit. Proof positive that she is on the right side....

Politico has a new piece up on low morale in the White House. It’s based on interviews with “nearly two dozen people who’ve spent time with Trump in the three weeks since his inauguration.” It’s kind of...

By constitutional design, only a third of the Senate is up for reelection at any given time. This is supposed to stiffen the body’s ability to rebuff populist passions that will inevitably arise from time to time and...