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  (Originally posted March 10, 2014) I was having a discussion with my friend Dustin here in Cape Coral the other day about food and restaurants. We both enjoy cooking and we agreed that 1) we had no desire to work as professional chefs- too arduous and… 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 »

  In line with my last few posts, here are a few items from this week’s news: The day after I posted about the reshaping of digital journalism, the New York Times announced Josh Barro, a young writer who I have praised here before, would be joining up… more »

  I became aware that something was happening when Nate Silver decamped from the New York Times with his FiveThirtyEight blog to move to ESPN. ESPN, a Disney property, purchased the rights from Silver (the Times had only licensed the rights from the st… more »