Author: Thomas Purcell

Get this: The federal government is offering tips on New Year’s resolutions. I stumbled upon its “Popular New Year’s Resolutions” page on: usa.gov, the official Web portal of the United States government. “Lose Weight” is one. When I clicked the link there, it took me to the page for the Weight-control Information Network (WIN), a government […]

Washington’s self-created “fiscal cliff” crisis has been somewhat resolved, which means we can continue ignoring the real fiscal crises that are dead ahead. Medicare offers a fine example. The Medicare mess began in 1965 when Lyndon Baines Johnson continued FDR’s tradition of buying votes with the voters’ own money: That’s when LBJ signed Medicare into […]