Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web on May 19^th.

Rich Lowry flags this as the “scariest passage” in President Obama’s address to the Congress (emphasis added): As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President’s Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger […]

It doesn’t much matter whether government actually delivers but rather whether it’s seen to deliver. The New Deal, for example, despite its repeated failures and cockamamie schemes, has nevertheless been judged a success by history.