This is from the Wall Street Journal, quoting columnist Janet Daley from London’s Daily Telegraph of May 19. It is pointed at the future of the European Union, but substitute US for EU and it’s still timely and appropriate. How long will freedom survive in the face of mass rage at the loss of the […]
Archives for June 2012
Wisconsin Recall Vote is Huge
It is difficult to overstate the outcome in the recall election of Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. It might still be a little early to tell if his victory signals the end of the mystique of the Barack Obama “narrative”, although that day may come soon enough with the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. But […]
The Counterrevolutionary Century?
Mary Eberstadt of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution wrote a very insightful essay for the April 2, 2012 issue of National Review entitled Sexual Counterrevolution, which I highly recommend. In it she contends that it is not unthinkable that the range of conflicts now raging over the social issues, in which the conflict over who will […]
The Bank Regulatory Dilemma
As a retired banker and one who struggled mightily through the Texas banking debacle of the mid-1980s, the current debate over the “too big to fail” problem resonates with me. I served as CEO of a sizable banking organization, but one that was not considered too big to fail, and I watched other banks that […]
The New American Majority
Recently the news cycle was captivated by the report from the U. S. Census Bureau that, for the first time in U. S. history, whites of European ancestry account for less than half of new-born children, supposedly marking a tipping point for the economy, the workforce, and politics. Commentators marked it as a major turning […]