Romney’s Flawed Economic Plan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 9th, 2011 4:32 am by HL
Time to Leave 9/11 Behind
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON — After we honor the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we need to leave the day behind. As a nation we have looked back for too long. We learned lessons from the attacks, but so many of them were wrong. The last decade was a detour that left our nation weaker, more divided and less certain of itself.Reflections on the meaning of the horror and the years that followed are inevitably inflected by our own political or philosophical leanings. It's a critique that no doubt applies to my thoughts as well. We see what we choose to see and use the event as we want to…
Imagining 9/11
Roger Cohen, New York Times
BELLAGIO, ITALY — My daughter turned four that day. She was in my arms as my wife and I ran down Remsen Street to the Brooklyn Promenade. Smoke from the towers was thickening into a churning cloud. Papers from incinerated brokerage houses fluttered across the East River beneath that sky I think of now as 9/11 blue. Roger Cohen Journalists are bound to observe which way people are moving and go in the opposite direction. I boarded the No. 2 train at Clark Street. The woman next to me was fighting back tears. Her brother was in the North Tower, she…
Why Liberals Fear the “Lochner” Decision
George Will, Washington Post
Liberal certitudes continue to dissolve, the most recent solvent being a robust new defense of a 1905 Supreme Court decision that liberals have long reviled — and misrepresented. To understand why the court correctly decided Lochner v. New York and why this is relevant to current arguments, read David E. Bernstein’s “Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform.”Since the New Deal, courts have stopped defending liberty of contract and other unenumerated rights grounded in America’s natural rights tradition….
