Let me take another crack at last night’s State of the Union address. We all know these speeches are meaningless in terms of actual policy. The President has little control over what gets legislated. So any grand statements are simply attempts to move the epicenter of discussion and to create political fog in the already […]

The media seems to be abuzz with the new and revitalized Obama. He is everywhere proposing all sorts of policies that are bright and shiny. More to the point they have a distinctly liberal sheen. Take his proposed tax changes: raise taxes via a numbers of small changes to the tax code on the rich, […]