Benedict Arnold Still Had A Point

    I’ve just about written this blog before. We learn nothing from history and increasingly become a nation that dies in a state of ill-grace. The chimerical magic of “American Exceptionalism” is not going to deal the American People a “Get Out of Stupid Free Card.” Toyota’s closure of a US facility should serve as a wake-up call. But alas…. Toyota has built itself into an | Read More »

    Il Duce and Il Friedman

    A lost person, frozen in ice for the last twenty years, could thaw out and reanimate this morning. If he picked up yesterday’s New York Times and read two paragraphs of Thomas L. Friedman’s latest gem of a column, he’d know without further input that Friedman is truly a purblind mope. Evidence of Friedman’s profound and ineluctable enstupidation follows below. One-party autocracy certainly has its | Read More »