April 14, 2010
Suburban Revolutionaries
In Ancient Rome, it was the poor people who lived in the suburbs. The rich lived in the city center, close to work, close to entertainment, close to all the finest restaurants (or the Roman version of restaurant). But in...
April 13, 2010
An Indispensable Insurance Policy
So, I came home last week to hear that traffic in Washington was going to be completely screwed up because of some nuclear weapons summit. Nuclear weapons summit? Are you kidding me? 44 nations are now in Washington, the biggest...
April 12, 2010
The Many Strains of Conservatism
The Republican Party has traditionally been seen as a party of two parts: a moderate wing and a conservative wing. But that view has become less and less relevant as the moderate wing shrinks to a party of basically two...
April 12, 2010
Tiger
I thought it was interesting that Tiger Woods wore sunglasses during the Masters Golf Tournament. Nobody else seemed to notice, but Tiger never did that before. But, of course, Tiger never took five months off from the Tour before, became...
April 5, 2010
The Big Short
One of the great things about going on a vacation is that you get the chance to catch up on some reading. For some reason, I picked Michael Lewis’s book, “The Big Short”, and Hank Paulson’s “On the Brink” for...
April 2, 2010
10 Ways to Cut Spending
Everyone talks about cutting spending, but nobody does anything about it. Undoubtedly, government continues to get too big and it spends too much, just as government services seem to worsen and public infrastructure nears collapse. There are a lot of...