Hindsight often seems instructive, but there is always the danger of drawing the wrong lesson.  Here’s a case in point.   I rather like Peggy Noonan’s work.  There are many times where she doesn’t match up to my rather conservative -- that’s financial and social -- perspectives.  But still, she is thoughtful and has on multiple occasions caused me to think about alternatives to my positions with a sympathy that I had not been able to call up on my own. But a recent column has brought me to print.  Called “A Catastrophe Like No Other” (Wall Street Journal April 5-6, 2014), she rightly castigates the left for its unfailing (until recently) support for ObamaCare.  It was good, for example, to see Nancy Pelosi’s famous point that we have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it make the list. There has been no more telling “Freudian slip” in politics in my lifetime.  Someone said a...(Read Full Post)