The fashion industry produces an endless cycle of clothes as styles come into fashion and then go out again.  Bell bottoms are now out of favor and straight leg jeans are all the rage, welcome to a repeat of the late seventies.  In politics ideas also move in cycles of popularity. Judging by the Obama administration's apology tour and weak defense of the US, straight leg jeans aren't the only repeat from the Carter era.  It remains to be seen if Obama will use the word "malaise" when he gives his State Of The Union Address. Old ideas often seem new after they've been re-branded and bad ideas resurface with new names.  It can be hard to keep up.  Stimulus spending is now called targeted ideas, it's the same sow with a classier name.  Social justice is the new name for an old concept once trotted out by Marx, and green is the new red.  President Obama is just like the models on the runway at a fashion show.  His job is to get...(Read Full Post)