(hat tip: Instapundit) What we’re seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn’t Greece’s problem alone, and that’s why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised huge health and […]
Over at Reason magazine online Tim Cavanaugh has an interesting piece up titled, “California: The American Greece. It opens thusly: What do Europe’s most bankrupt nation-state and America’s most bankrupt united state have in common, aside from being bankrupt? In what is undoubtedly a coincidence noticed only by free-market fundamentalists, it turns out that Greece, […]
Europe is tottering on the brink and now the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland is spewing ash again. Flights across Europe are being canceled. Not helpful. Of course, the challenges Europe faces are almost entirely a result of pursuing policies that the current American government would love to put in place here. Among them, the strengthening […]
First, thanks to all for the kind comments and emails regarding my post about my mother from a few days ago. Those comments put me in mind of something I’ve been meaning to do with this blog for while now. Allow me to explain. A little more than three years ago, I staked a claim […]
Michael Ramirez is arguably the most gifted political cartoonist to come along in a generation. If he were liberal he would have a shelf full of Pulitzer prizes at home. Here’s one of his latest: More of his stuff here.
I have written here occasionally about my father and his ongoing battle with Alzheimer’s—an enemy he has fought valiantly but to whom he continues to lose weekly ground. (See here, here, and here.) I haven’t written much about the woman who daily displays equal valor in taking care of him—without complaint or a discernible trace […]
I’m dazed and disoriented. The last thing I remember clearly, I was trying to move in the middle of a snow storm in mid-February. Two weeks later I think I went to Alaska for a week to research a book. Or was that a dream? There was snow there, too. When I got back I […]
Aaaaand, I’m back. Finished final tweaks on the new book manuscript and saw it sent off to the publisher today. I am still constrained from saying anything about the subject matter here on the interwebs until the publisher makes an official announcement. Nevertheless, hopes are high. I can tell you that this is a co-written […]
James Lileks has a great little piece up over at Pajamas Media: ‘Question Authority’? Dude, That’s sooo 2008
. . . and then answers his own question.
