If it is true that there is an inherent poetry to the game of baseball, then the way the season began and ended, opening with tragedy in the same city that celebrated the triumph of its team at the end, was the stuff that poet’s feast on. On April 15, just as the annual Patriots’ […]

              “We get the government we deserve.” —Alexis de Tocqueville               “… government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish …” —Abraham Lincoln               “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have.” —Thomas Jefferson I have received a […]

Liberals are fretting and conservatives are chortling over the mini-disaster that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been. Here are the details:  The opportunity to sign up for affordable health insurance was supposed to be available on a government website as of October 1.  But almost immediately, it became apparent that the government […]

The government is up and running again, and the nation’s debts will be paid for another four months, or at least the better part thereof.  That was the good news that emerged from the eleventh hour capitulation by Congressional Republicans last week. With the government about to reach the limit of the available indebtedness that […]