Conservatism: RIP in New England?

What to do about the Two Ladies from Maine?What about Mr. Brown who took down the Democratic Establishment in the Bay State, with an upset victory in a 3-to-1 blue state beholden to the Kennedy clan for nigh fifty years?Do we simply watch them dissolve along with the...

Friedman on Incumbents

"Make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things."–Milton FriedmanInstead of stoking up ribald opposition to take on entrenched incumbents, it's time that Sharing prior to this comment, Friedman pointed that politicians...

Homer Simpson, where are you?

In one episode of "The Simpsons", Homer Simpson and family go to the movies. For an interminable length of time, they and the rest of the audience are bombarded with commercials and movie previews.Exasperated to distraction, Homer takes to the front of the...

Jeffersonian Hamiltonianism: The Source

Back to Washington's Administration, first term.Treasury Secretary wants a strong central government, one that will assume the debts of the nation and restore the full faith and credit of the country to leery investors and wary nations. With his mind ever-trained...

Jeffersonian Hamiltonianism, or vice versa

The United States has grown more schizophrenic about the role of government for a long time.We have grown accustomed to denouncing the growth of government, yet at the same tolerating, even welcoming it under our noses.In President Washington's Cabinet, these two...