2011... The Year in Review
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny The American Spectator article by Jed Babbin , entitled 2011: The Year the Wheels Fell Off provides a quick and light summary of the year almost over. It is worth the read. A short teaser: The coming year will not give us a break from the steady stream of political knavery, green graft and governmental stupidity that 2011 delivered, though it will surely provide a flood of politically-induced comedy. JANUARY: An enterprising BBC reporter -- seeking to prove the practicality of electric cars -- drove from London to Edinburgh. The journey took four days -- longer than a horse-drawn stage would have taken for the trip 150 years ago -- including nine stops of up to ten hours. (In its first crisis summit of the year, EU leaders declared they would impose Germanic controls on its members' sovereign debts and toasted each other with large portions of Rémy Martin Louis XIII cognac. Meanwhile, in the first Republican ...