The Washington Post is our own little Pravda, kissing up to Obama on every day. Each day there’s a story about the pain caused by the sequester, the idea being that any attempt to intro… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism…

Did you get the many ironies of the newly-released DOJ memo on drone wars? Recall that the administration tried to deep-six it, while all the while releasing Bush-era Office of Legal Counsel memos in … No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here….

If there’s one thing the left cannot tolerate, it’s self-doubt. Progressives revel in their sanctimony, and no one does it better than the WaPo’s David Ignatius, who parades his sycophancy for Obama w… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…

People sometimes refer to the arcana of DC as “inside Baseball.” If so, the battle over U. Va. and its board is Inside Little League. Briefly, the governor-appointed board fired the university’s presi… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…

At lunch with friends we talked of Patti Page, whose obit in the NY Times dripped with sarcasm. So much for nil nisi. I argued that the ’50s were hipper than the ’80s, that Mitt Romney’s playlist was … No…

Do you remember the line about how all clever economists were tall, with the exceptions of Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith? Clever or not, the 6’8″ Galbraith was one of the wittiest of econ… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here….

The good people at Donors Trust tell me that the Fiscal Cliff bill will not seriously affect a taxpayer’s ability to deduct charitable gifts. I wish I could explain this better, but there was a reason… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling…