While not blameless in negotiations, the Republicans were at least ready to start making some cuts of the kind that are ultimately inescapable if American greatness is not to face extinction.
What we do want is to be prudent, cautious, careful, to understand that this 21st century is fraught with brands of peril in some ways different from what we knew before. And we must be prepared to make the harms that come our way less harmful than the evil intended.
Last July, a Gallup poll said 21 percent of American adults had a “great deal” of confidence in TV news, which is odd even though it is a minority, seeing
What we have here, much as with Prohibition, are good intentions doing no discernible good. Instead, Prohibition did lots of harm — the outcome again and again of government interventions.
Reported federal figures show government spending has gone up by more than $800 per American since 2008, the year before Obama became president.
Reported federal figures show government spending has gone up by more than $800 per American since 2008, the year before Obama became president.
While it included some reasonably expressed generalities, President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech was also a mix of black swan obliviousness and invisible gorilla syndrome, with some goulash
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