Sierra Faith

Duh: No country can provide all things for all citizens. There comes a point where it just isn’t possible, and it’s proven to be a failure everywhere it’s been tried.

Terry Teachout: Me, I like black-and-white movies, and I can recall with embarrassing ease a time when color TV was a rarity reserved for the rich. The earliest color TV sets, which went on sale in 1954, cost $1,295 each, a bit more than ten thousand dollars in today’s money. My family, which didn’t have [...]

This needs to be said by more Republicans: “I don’t want to be in Washington another six years and watch the Republican party betray the trust of the American people again. I mean, we had the White House. We had a majority in the House and the Senate. We voted for more spending and more [...]

Bill Evans interviewed in 1966: More here. And — start at 1:30:

Jay Nordlinger remembers the wit of Mrs. Donald Rumsfeld: Mrs. Rumsfeld is a bit of a media maven, and I ask whether she reads the New York Times. Yes, she says, “but faster than I used to.” Ouch!

For those interested in what California once was and the mess it has become, Jennifer Rubin remembers: More than 40 years later, I still remember the bright sun and the palm trees when we got off the plane. California in 1968 was a magical place, a magnet for those seeking new opportunities or to lose [...]

Jerry Brown buying the votes of illegal aliens with promises to spend your tax dollars on the education of illegal aliens. Because, you know, our debts are simply not big enough and it’s not your money, it’s Jerry’s: One of the most dramatic moments of the second gubernatorial debate came when a woman in the [...]

Nat King Cole performs “Little Girl” in 1950 with Irving Ashby on guitar, Joe Comfort on bass, and Jack Costanzo on conga drum:

From the Environmental Defense Fund’s Dominique Browning on the EDF’s Peter Goldmark: That means we no longer have the luxury of polite, time-consuming public debate on the issue. “We have to be much more aggressive about pinpointing our enemies, and doing it early—showing how and where they are spending their money to undermine our efforts,” [...]