Another Rich Riebling secret deal? It’s interesting that there seems to be no public proposal to deal with the budget deficit, nor a bidding process to see if the city could get a better deal.
About one in five Americans combine a view of God as actively engaged in daily workings of the world with an economic conservative view that opposes government regulation and champions the free market as a matter of faith. “They say the invisible hand of the free market is really God at work,” says sociologist Paul Froese, co-author of the Baylor Religion Survey, released Tuesday by Baylor University.
Can anyone tell me the biblical basis for believing that the free market is the way of God?
(Source: tennessean.com)
If (income) inequality is at a very much higher level, who cares?”
—Britt Hume
I wonder if Mr. Hume has ever studied the nature of revolutions and what happens to those in power when they look down their noses and say “…let them eat cake.”?
Centrism is something altogether different. It’s not a philosophy. It’s a position based on calculation. It doesn’t start with fixed principles. It measures where everyone else stands on some political spectrum at a given moment and then frantically adjusts.
Because centrism is reactive, you never really know what a centrist believes. Centrists are constantly packing their bags and chasing off to find a new location as the political conversation veers one way or another.
—E. J Dionne Jr.
