When people start wearing guns to rallies, what’s the next thing that happens? – Tony Stewart, a leading civil rights activist (according to the article), quoted in “Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse For Rebellion on Right”, David Barstow, The New York…
Expected to pick up a few score seats, the Republicans lost thirteen instead. The voters elected a new House of 322 Democrats, 103 Republicans, and ten Progressives or Farmer-Laborites. Never in the history of the Republican party had its percentage…
There is too much partisianship and… too much narrow ideology [in Washington]. Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people’s business is not getting done. All of this and much more has led me to believe that there…
The real lesson from Europe is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works. ….. So why do we get such a different picture from many pundits? Because…
A lot of good ideas were shoved aside because of the Depression and the rise of the Keynesian view of the world. – George Selgin, Professor of Economics, University of Georgia, quoted in “Ron Paul’s ideas no longer fringe”, Los…
The frontier between the state and market has shifted. The realm of the state has been enlarged. – Daniel Yergin, author of 1998’s The Commanding Heights which chronicled the ascent of free market forces starting in the 1980s, quoted in…
I finished basketball in 1978, then went into my own business in 1980 and did it for 29 years… Now I get to the end of that career and probably should have retired. But there was a calling greater than…
The government has moved in next door, and it ain’t leaving. You could fight it if you want, but soceity wants change. And government is not going away. – Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric, in June at the International Economic…
I came across a letter today addressed to Geithner, Summers and Donovan (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development) from the National Association of Homebuilders, National Association of Realtors and the Mortgage Bankers Association asking for an extension of the $8,000…