One more thing to say about America's fiscal cliff, and it's on the regional breakdown of the vote to approve the legislation in the House of Representatives yesterday morning (Australian time). I can't claim originality for the idea – John Judis posted about it at the New Republic. But it was sufficiently interesting for me … Continue reading Fiscal cliff: a Civil War postscript
Category: United States
More to liberty than gun rights
So if gun rights need to be defended as a safeguard against tyranny, why are conservatives so cavalier about trashing other safeguards?
And over the cliff we go – sort of
A deal dragged the United States back up the fiscal cliff, and the markets loved it.
Highlights of 2012: The top 10 elections
It was again a mixed year for elections, where the forces of change and the forces of stability both had their victories. Here's my top 10 for 2012.
Who’s afraid of the fiscal cliff?
Expectations are low in Washington for reaching an agreement that would avoid the "fiscal cliff" next week. That's probably not something we should worry about too much.
Death of a conservative
Curious that the person perhaps most responsible for politicising the US supreme court, at least in the last fifty years, never actually took his seat on the court. Such was the significance of Robert Bork, who died this week at the age of 85. Bork's nomination to the court by Ronald Reagan in 1987 set … Continue reading Death of a conservative
The World is Not Enough 