Alan Reynolds has a great column putting the smack down on political scientist Jacob Hacker's "Family Income Stability" index. Read the whole thing, but here is the amusing final paragraph: I have no ...

The basic underlying principle of the New Deal was that security is not opposed to opportunity but essential to it.

The New York Times calls Jacob Hacker the "intellectual 'it boy'" of the Democratic Party. Three years out of Harvard, he wrote that the Clinton healthcare plan failed because it was a hodgepodge of ...