…Calmly observing the changing world

The threats to a republic are many, and the idealized federal republic may be more mythical than real – but it is at the very least, an excellent goal. The republic seeks to tread carefully in that slimmest of passageways between the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of a minority. It thus eschews [...]

Whenever the economy is “bad”, it is always the number one issue: it’s the economy stupid. So somehow, to get Obama’s policies implemented, he will have to couch them in economic terms. That the result becomes completely nonsensical hasn’t seem to have detered him. President Obama’s latest push for health care involves economic arguments in favor [...]