A kind  reader used my contact page today (instead of commenting here on the blog, perhaps to save me embarrassment. Thank you.) to alert me to a flaw in my October 2008 posts about columnist Charley Reese. The error probably accounts for why I did not find the original source for a couple of his articles. I misspelled his name....

"When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are...