Democrats’ Big Sky Bust-Up
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 9th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Nixon and the GOP’s Politics of Resentment
Jeff Shesol, The New Yorker
Whatever else you might say about Richard Nixon—and you might say a lot—the man knew how to write a memo. He wrote an untold number in the twenty years between his resignation from the Presidency, forty years ago this week, and his death, on April 22, 1994, at the age of eighty-one. He wrote memos to his successors, to their White House aides, and to his designated political heirs—memos on foreign policy and press strategy, memos of political pre- and post-game analysis. He wrote serious-minded memos, ingratiating memos, and incendiary memos.
Is New York the Next Detroit?
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The New York Times has a lengthy and dismaying article on the problems with New York City’s pensions:Next year alone, the city will set aside for pensions more than $8 billion, or 11 percent of the budget. That is an increase of more than 12 times from the city’s outlay in 2000, when the payments accounted for less than 2 percent of the budget.