News Item: Office Depot, which merged with OfficeMax last November, announced plans last week to close 400 stores. The stated reason was to eliminate overlap in particular locations. The announcement did not include information about the number of… more »

  It must be yahoo season. Perhaps the arrival of Spring brought them out, but you can see them all over the country now. The first mass sighting was in Nevada, on Cliven “I’m just like the Founding Fathers” Bundy’s ranch. Bundy is the rancher who… more »

  It was another of those interactions I stumble into online when I cannot restrain my inner Snark. I happened upon a Troll on Twitter berating David Axelrod and Chris Hayes who were involved in an exchange about basketball: “You guys should stick to… more »

On our long ride north the other day, we happened across Amity Shlaes interviewing Dr. George Nash on C-SPAN’s After Words on Sirius radio. Nash is a conservative scholar and a biographer of Herbert Hoover. Shlaes is herself a conservative writer and… more »

  I became acquainted with the writings of Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) a few years ago when I began reading more about tax policy. His 2012 book, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform- Why We Need It and What It Will Take, introduced me to a… more »

  In recent years, or more precisely, since Barack Obama became President, Republicans have had a continuing romance with the term “job creators” as in “we need to get government off the back of the job creators and give them the freedom to grow the… more »