From Martin Mayer, again: ". . . bureaucracies are fundamentally motivated by the fear of discovery of error." That insight, from his book, "Today and Tomorrow In America", explai… (View Post)

Adlai Stevenson also came up with this line: "In America, any small boy can become president. And that's just the chance he has to take." (from memory) (View Post)

The best answer to who won the popular vote in the 1960 US presidential election is: No one knows, but Nixon has a better claim than Kennedy. (And the Democrats have a better claim than the Repupblic… (View Post)

Off topic, but important: "Authorities in Canada are racing to evacuate nearly 20,000 residents from the territorial capital, Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories by Friday as a raging wild… (View Post)

From the WaPo article I linked to, earlier: "The government also influences physician pay directly through Medicare, perhaps the biggest spigot of health-care cash on Planet Earth. Typically, pe… (View Post)