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Daily Archives: March 4th, 2014

Must be true-it’s got footnotes

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Paul Krugman writes about Paul Ryan's latest flim-flam, replacing magic asterisks with mis-citations: Give Ryan some points for originality. In his various budgets, he relied mainly on magic asterisks — unspecified savings and revenue sources to be determined later; he was able to convince many pundits that he had a grand fiscal plan when the […]

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An anniversary

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Seven score and ten years ago, an American president delivered the finest inaugural address in history, and perhaps the greatest political speech in that same time span. A bit heavy on the god, but we can over look that. Well worth reading. Still has the power to evoke strong feelings.

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