Oh posterity, you will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom.  I hope that you will make a good use of it.  It you do not, I will repent in heaven that I took half the pains to preserve it.

So speaks John Adams in the last line of the [...]

“Lobbyists need something to buy, and legislators need something to sell.”
So described Milton Friedman our beltway government.  Lobbyists have clients who give them money to purchase advantage from legislators who are writing laws that affect them.  Legislators create laws that favor specific individuals and businesses that are represented by lobbyists.  With taxpayer money, they both prosper [...]

“Combat fog obscures your fate…and from that unknown is born a desperate bond between men”

In Sebastian Junger’s War, a book about a company of soldiers in the Korengal Valley of Eastern Afghanistan, we experience war conceptually, and devoid of the cynicism of most war commentary.  Junger doesn’t speak to whether war is good or [...]

“May you live in interesting times”  We do.  We must think. . . and Thinkagain.  Welcome.