Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2016: Spies

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[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham’s Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham’s Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [All pictures are from L.Q. Winter 2016] Lewis, Lewis, Lewis.  (Lapham of course.)  Reviewing your paltry … Continue reading →

We Should Be Embarrassed by the Sequester Debate

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Here is a new op-ed by two people whose intellect and opinions I very highly respect.  I have read their book Free Market Revolution twice and I strongly recommend you read this 221-page book… carefully. OP-ED We Should Be Embarrassed … Continue reading →

One More Event to Add to the “Been There, Survived That” List

  At the risk of my meandering blog offending snow people, photogs, and fashionable women, I too “am a conservative foremost, not a Republican.” I like this man’s writing.  

T.O.T.N (Thoughts On The News) 17 Feb 2013: Minimum Wage

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The WSJ Opinion Page has a good article on Obama’s SOTU (State Of The Union) proposal to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 per hour.  It has facts (what a novel idea), but as a friend often reminds … Continue reading →

T.O.T.N. (Thoughts On The News) 02/13-14/2013

Obama’s State of the Union Address, Minimum Wage, Marco Rubio, Immigration, Gun Control, oh my!  REALLY?! I could opine on conservative thought 3 times a day.  I definitely should opine more than 3 times a year.  If I have anything … Continue reading →

False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency by Gene Healy

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False Idol: Barack Obama and the Continuing Cult of the Presidency [Kindle Edition] by Gene Healy, from Amazon. A friend often asks me something to the effect of “is our current president incompetent or does he have a strategy to grow government … Continue reading →

Individual Freedom (and responsibility) or Social Justice Collectivism?

Feel like a little reading?  Proceed. Have you had enough post-election analysis?  Here is a noteworthy one referred to me by a friend: Post-Mortem by Laura Hollis Points I thought were especially pertinent: …”we are now at a place where there are … Continue reading →