Wednesday, July 29, 2009

YESTERDAY, David Brooks wrote a column in which he mostly said that we do stuff for our posterity and that if we didn't we wouldn't do much of anything. He cites a blog written by two economists, Marginal Revolution: small steps toward a better world. It is refreshing to read something intelligent.

REMEMBER Bush II's comment that nobody is denied health care because they can just go to the emergency room? Andrew Sullivan correctly notes that this, too, is socialized medicine.

YES, there is a reason Professor Gates should sue the Cambridge, MA, Police Department: to defend the Fourth Amendment and a fundamental constitutional principle.