October 8, 2013 - 6:00pm
More than a week since the rollout of the new Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, and still not much about the process is going smoothly.
One way or another, the battle of the budget and the debt ceiling will be over by All Hallows' Eve.
Yet, as one looks deeper, at the irreconcilable conflict behind the present clash, only a roaring optimist would imagine we shall ever know again the tranquility and unity of the Eisenhower-Kennedy years.
At least once a week somebody asks me how, as a conservative, I can defend such a morally verklempt social pastime as gambling.