Jonah Goldberg is a great writer and an even better researcher. In this book, which I will quote often in maxim posts, he goes down the rabbit hole chasing Donald Trump and ends up far from his origin...Read More
“Dictators are rarely good economic managers.“ WSJ editorial referring to Turkey and Venezuela For every Lee Kwan Yoo there are ten Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castros...Read More
“A liberal is a man so broad-minded that he won’t take his own side in an argument.” Robert Frost From Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg...Read More
War is a game to be played with a smiling face. Winston Churchill In 1916 during his four months in the trenches in WWI From the very readable book Churchill by Roy Jenkins. Recommended...Read More
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. Roughly quoting Dante and variously misquoted by JFK, Teddy Roosevelt and others I found it in...Read More
“The pen is often mightier than the sword and the settled habits of a nation mightier than a statute. “ Frederick Douglass From Frederick Douglass Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur...Read More
It is Time to Eliminate the Income Tax. The Federal Government needs lots of money and they get most of it through income taxes. Unfortunately income taxes distort behavior, are volatile and are ext...Read More