TomInReston | April 28, 2009
While Democrats inside the beltway are jubilant over Alen Specter’s decision to join their ranks — and I’ll admit I’m not unhappy at the prospect of having sixty votes in the Senate, when we do — I find the fawning over Specter to be an insult to grass roots Democrats across the country.
This is an [...]
TomInReston | April 26, 2009
We can see what happens when markets fail. It’s not pretty.
A decade ago, it was the dot com bust (along with big chunk of the telecom industry). Now it is the housing, banking and insurance sectors.
Next time is what scares me, because it may be our healthcare system. and we could be setting the stage [...]
TomInReston | April 26, 2009
I’ve been away from my keyboard awhile, completing a grueling project at my day job. But I’ve followed the release of the torture memos by the Justice Department and the ensuing debate.
Sometimes I’m baffled by our collective ability to miss the obvious.
Ask yourself this: Since when does the President of the United States get to [...]
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
