Reid's Observations (er…Waffle)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's reflection on the Raising of the U.S. Federal Debt Ceiling recently passed within hairs-breadth of national default:“People on the right are upset. People on the left are upset. People in the middle are upset.”Let's just cut...

"b"ig Government vs. Limited Government

Big Government with a little "b": is that the real enemy? Cutting spending to cut the sheer size of government, yes that is admirable. Yet is that all that Americans should be seeking?Limited Government: does that mean a federal government which only attends...

Integrity, Originality, Character, and Freedom

Integrity is more important than originality.Faith (perseverance) is more important than creativity and imagination, suffice what Albert Einstein may have trumpeted.Lady Gaga is the epitome of style-over-substance-as-substance. She is fooling fewer people in her...

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...