A Good Rule of Thumb

When in doubt, blame Reagan. It usually works for me.

Now it's working for Paul Krugman too. And he's a Nobel prize winner.

I love his line about how Reagan turning the S&L crisis from a problem into a catastrophe "has been written out of the Reagan hagiography."

This country cannot be strong unless we are rooted in truth. And at the moment, we're so deep in denial about so much of our history, it's astonishing. Dismantling the Reagan hagiography would be a great start.