Tag Archive: Politics

Why be a Republican?

From Ben Stein at the American Spectator blog: I am looking in my favorite book,Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, for a quote by Hayek about how you cannot clearly associate economic effects with economic causes because so many different circumstances are at work each time. I cannot find that quote in this edition — maybe a 1976 edition…

Perhaps substitute “Obama” for “Carter”

“My friends, a recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And a recovery is when President Carter loses his job.” –Ronald Reagan

Happy Birthday, President Reagan

Today would have been Ronald Reagan’s 101st birthday, were he alive. We miss you, Mr. President