Joe Nocera’s column in today’s New York Times will be quoted often in years to come. He and a few others — like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich — have written that America’s future is being sabotaged by the children who were elected last November…
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Northern Reflections: This Is A Better Idea?
There are many around the world who are resting easier this morning. But Paul Krugman isn’t one of them. He writes that the deal which President Obama reached with congressional leaders is a disaster:Start with the economics. We currently have a deeply…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Tea Party Time
Amid reports that Democratic and Republican leaders have reached a budget deal, Jeffrey Simpson’s analysis of American politics, in today’s Globe and Mail, offers some valuable perspective. The reasons for the problem are well known:The U.S. spen…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Vultures Are Circling
John Boehner is in the same spot he was in a week ago, when he walked out of budget negotiations with President Obama. He doesn’t have the votes. The difference this time is that he doesn’t have the votes for his own plan, not the president’s.In today’…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Raging Amnesia
George Orwell had a pretty good bead on the future. The only difference between 1984 and 2011 is that things go down the memory hole quicker. Certainly, writes Peter Beinart in The Daily Beast, the Republican Party suffers from a shocking case of amnes…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Smelling The Crazy
For Conservatives, Paul Krugman is more than an apostate; he is the Anti-Christ. But his column in today’s New York Times is required reading. He writes that it’s strange how many people, who have been in denial, are now “waking up and smelling the cra…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Come, Let Us Reason Together
I have always thought that Churchill was right when he said that, “the United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative” I was a graduate student in the United States during the Watergate Crisis; and, …
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