“As Detroit goes,” it used to be said, “so goes America.”
Let’s hope not.
Today’s news: the Obama administration is making another $500 million available to Chrysler as it tries to make itself pretty enough to seduce Fiat into taking on all that red ink. And GM will get another $5 billion of your tax dollars “to [...]
It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew – a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists. And it is still more curious that Daniel Deronda, George Eliot’s last novel, should have been dismissed, by many of her admirers at the time and by some critics since, as something of an anomaly, an inexplicable and unfortunate turn in her life and work.
Poor David Axelrod is bewildered. Yesterday on the CBS sort-of news program “Face the Nation,” Obama’s senior adviser informed the world that the “Tea Party” movement is “unhealthy.”
Unhealthy for whom, pray tell? Is it unhealthy for the more than 500,000 people across the country who gathered on April 15 to announce their unhappiness with the [...]
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