Bad Government Is The Natural Product Of

When The Entertainers Of The Right Aren’t Declaring Their Disgust With President Obama For Groveling Before Foreign Potentates, They’re Pretending To Fear Him As A Left-wing Thug, An Exemplar Of What They Call “the Chicago Way.”

The Great Fear That Hung Over The Business Community In The 1970s Was Death By Regulation, And The Great Goal Of The Conservative Movement, As It Rose To Triumph In The 1980s, Was To Remove That Threat - To Keep Osha, The Epa, And The Ftc From Choking Off Entrepreneurship With Their Infernal Meddling In The Marketplace.

One Of The Things I Keep Coming Back To In My Writing Is That Society Doesn't Work On This Mirror Principle - You Don't Have An Exact Replica On The Left Of What You Have On The Right. It Just Doesn't Work That Way.

Just As The Financial Crisis Has Created Toxic Assets And 'zombie' Financial Institutions, So Has It Transformed Conservatism Into A Movement Of The Living Dead.

It Is Always A Disappointment To Turn From Forthright Consideration Of Some Subject - Whether From The Left Or The Right, A Poet Or A Plumber - To The Beltway Version, In Which The Only Aspects Of The Issue That Matter Are The Effects It Will Have On The Fortunes Of The Two Parties And The Various Men In Power.