Presidential Legacies Are Valuable Things, Too Valuable

Government Is, By Its Very Nature, A Destroyer Of Liberties; The Obama Administration, Specifically, Is Promising To Interfere With The Economy And The Health Care System So Profoundly That Washington Will Soon Have Us All In Chains.

Thanks To A Deal Finalized In 2008, Chicago’s Parking Meters Will Be Operated For The Next 75 Years By A Group Of Investors Put Together By Morgan Stanley, Including The Sovereign Wealth Fund Of Abu Dhabi.

[the Right] May Never Bring Prayer Back To Schools, But It Has Rescued All Manner Of Rightwing Economic Nostrums From History's Dustbins. Having Rolled Back The Landmark Economic Reforms Of The Sixties (the War On Poverty) And Those Of The Thirties (labor Law, Agricultural Price Supports, Banking Regulation), Its Leaders Now Turn Their Guns On The Accomplishments Of The Earliest Years Of Progressivism (woodrow Wilson's Estate Tax; Theodore Roosevelt's Anti-trust Measures). With A Little More Effort, The Backlash May Well Repeal The Entire Twentieth Century.

In Small Towns, Bored Teenagers Turn Their Eyes Longingly To The Exciting Doings In The Big Cities, Pining For Urban Amenities Like Hipster Bars And Farmers' Markets And Indie-rock Festivals. Like Everyone Else, They Want The Vibrant And They Will Not Be Denied.

Maybe That First, Gigantic Deficit The Reaganites Piled Up Was An Accident, Just A Combination Of Deluded 'supply Side' Tax Cuts And A Huge Bag Of Good Stuff For The Pentagon. But Pretty Quickly Conservatives Discovered That Deficits, When Done Correctly, Did Something Really Cool: Deficits Defunded The Left.