Chelsea Clinton and the Travails of the Undeserving 1%

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  November 16th at 11:00 AM  | 

In another win for the famously blind meritocracy that rules American life, rewarding the ultra-talented and pushing the less brilliant and skilled into the outer darkness, Chelsea Clinton has landed a coveted position at NBC News. This was almost as much a surprise as her admission to Stanford… – Walter Russell Mead Via Meadia I hope that the #OWSers, those mighty progressive warriors, those fine | Read More »

The Two Amerikas of Obamacare

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  May 19th at 12:30 PM  | 

I have a nagging sense, and think I have accurately observed, that many of these people have made a separate peace.…I suspect that history, including great historical novelists of the future, will look back and see that many of our elites simply decided to enjoy their lives while they waited for the next chapter of trouble. And that they consciously, or unconsciously, took grim comfort | Read More »