On my way home from work this afternoon, I was flipping through the stations on the AM dial, listening to afternoon talk radio discuss the proposed bailout. The majority of callers were against the plan, but many of the allegedly conservative hosts were supporting it, if only grudgingly. For example, Michael Medved stated that although [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 13, 2008
Conversations Overheard Overseas
I just wrapped up a two-week visit to Helsinki. As I was eating dinner in the hotel restaurant one night, I overheard another American businessman having a conversation with some European counterparts. (Just so you know, it wasn’t so much eavesdropping as it was not being able to drown out a very loud voice in [...]
September 9, 2008
The Benedict Arnold of the Reagan Revolution
“[G]overnment is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
- Ronald Reagan, January 20, 1981
“If you’re disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult [...]
