Month: August 2011

I never studied economics in college, but I did attend law school. In fact I graduated 4th in my class. The standard buzz phrase that law school professors drum into the heads of their students is “think like a...

. Mark O. Hatfield, Oregon’s first statesman, dies Sunday at 89 PORTLAND, Ore. (The Oregonian) — As a 23-year-old Navy officer in 1945, Mark Hatfield was among the first American servicemen to personally see the...

If you think that Cokie Roberts is a liberal, you might be a moron. The first clue is that her daddy was Hale Boggs. Hale Boggs got his start in politics fighting against Huey Long’s Louisiana machine. Huey Long was a...

It occurs to me that a matchup between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would mean that quite a few wingnuts would be convinced that there was no Christian candidate in the race. Obama’s father was an atheist, but he was born...

It all started with a simple bad idea. The idea is seductive. If we’re going to solve our long-term deficit problem, the first thing we need to do is stop going further into debt. The easiest way to do that is to refuse to...