Op-Ed Columnist – South Park – NYTimes.com.
The last “sacred cow” (if you will) in the West’s conscious de-modestification. How sad (and infuriating) that it means succumbing to a totalitarian fringe in the Muslim world through self-censorship. This is the stuff of (late) Western decadence, indeed…
Op-Ed Columnist – Off the Chart – Editorial – NYTimes.com.
Simple stimulus redux and a referendum on Obama’s wildly wrong predictions about the effect on job creation. Not only is the actual unemployment rate higher than predicted WITH the stimulus, it’s more than 1 percentage point higher than predicted WITHOUT the stimulus. Talk about a waste [...]
Op-Ed Columnist – The Catastrophic Option – NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist – The Catastrophic Option – NYTimes.com. Snowe has made the ultimate political gamble – approved a health care “fix” which in fact fixes neither the underlying fiscal problem (cost of care) nor the structural one (insurers backstopped by the government), sacrificing reality for a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to make things even worse, long term. [...]