This spectacle of a race for the Democratic nomination for President is unlike anything any of us have seen in our lifetimes and seems to be transforming the entire electoral landscape that we have known for at least 30 years in ways that will not become entirely clear for years to come. I have never […]
Archives for March 2008
It’s the Currency, Stupid!
The elephant in the living room–the topic Washington won’t broach–is the dollar itself as a powerful but unused monetary policy tool………….probably the most important economic and investing variable in the last decade. The best stimulus policy is a sound currency.–David Malpass, Chief Economist, Bear Stearns, Wall Street Journal. No less an authority than Lenin well […]
Buckley Remembered
I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.–William F. Buckley, Jr., God and Man at Yale, 1951. Obviously, Bill Buckley had the essentials of the struggle pretty well nailed […]
American Genius
A recently released study from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, contrary to the analysis offerred by some observers, should give Americans renewed comfort in the founding concept that has, probably more than any other single element, fostered American exceptionalism among the nations. This concept, based on the dual U. S. Constitutional guarantees of […]