Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'
John FundRemember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.
John FundOne Blue Dog Democratic House Member reminded me earlier this month of the saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' He wondered if his fellow Members weren't more in need of advice from psychiatrists than from economists at this point.
John FundI think the only way we retain credibility with the Arab world is to say, 'When push came to shove, despite the mistakes we made in the past, we are with you in democracy.'
John FundThere have been brilliant satires about the tax bureaucracy before, from the Beatles song โThe Taxmanโ to the film โHarryโs War,โ but in some ways Jim Greenfieldโs The Taxman Cometh outdoes them all. His tale of a little guy who canโt take it anymore is both compelling and timely, given the tax scandals we read about in Washington almost every day.
John Fund