I like Jeff Ackerman’s Op-Ed today in The Union, “Radical left and right are squeezing out the middle.” Why do I like it? Not because I agree with all of it, or even most of it, but because it seems to be an honest list of what he believes, what he’s for and what…
We set off yesterday afternoon to find out if there was any truth to Will Rogers’ old quip. We attended our first Nevada County Democrats’ Annual Picnic at Condon Park. We made a couple of new friends, which was — truth be known — our real motive for going. The lunch was excellent (barbecued…
There has been much written lately about the death of newspapers, and even the death of journalism as we’ve known it. But tucked in the depths of this interesting article by Scott Shane in the New York Times — about the work of a couple of young A.C.L.U. lawyers in their surprisingly successful use…
Paul Krugman, in his most recent column, claims that, while new budget projections show a cumulative deficit of $9 trillion over the next decade, such deficits are manageable by historical standards, and the real danger going forward is political. But what about all that debt we’re incurring? That’s a bad thing, but it’s important to…