The Bully’s Pulpit

The behind-the-scenes string pullers in the Bush camp launched their re-election plan last night with the carefully choreographed spectacle that played out on all the networks. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post  [more...]

It occurs to me that people tend to use the phrase “fixed income” a lot when they mean low income. I mean, back when I had a job I was salaried and got the same check every two weeks. In other words, I was  [more...]

I won’t be watching (or, as usual, listening) to the big speech tomorrow. And frankly, I can’t imagine that it will contain any surprises. We can all expect the usual number of made up words like  [more...]