The Sage of Mount Airy

You've likely noticed that my posts have been intermittent at best lately.  As I explained back in August and September, I've taken ...

Such were the words Democratic legislator Douglas Geiss boldly declared on the floor of the state house in response to the signing of the ne...

In case you were wondering, the Sage has been on the road without a blogging-compatible computer. Not that it mattered. It feels, to me ...

And here I thought even Charles Krauthammer was going wobbly as we approached the fiscal cliff.  I was wrong. Instead, he sees exactly wh...

How we are taxed is a very important issue.  There are more and less efficient and/or just ways for our government to raise the revenue it ...

If you've paid any attention at all to the debate over what to do to avoid the nation's looming "fiscal cliff", you know t...

As more and more Republicans appear ready to abandon their pledge to the American people (not to Grover Norquist for heaven's sake) by a...