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Given the conversation among Elliott Abrams, @RichLowry, Jeffrey Lord, and others about the March 21, 1986, House special order speech by Rep. Newt Gingrich, I…

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New Fortune.com managing editor (and ’95 Medill grad) Daniel Roth (@danroth) gave me a chance the other day to write a guest column on transparency and financial recovery and XBRL. It’s now here.

My blogging pace has slowed because I’ve been able to Tweet most urgent matters and have been spending time away from ranch work on phone calls, most of which are related to business process technology and, potentially, XBRL. This new…

Monday’s Information Age column by Gordon Crovitz is all about XBRL. The headline is the message: “Transparency Is More Powerful Than Regulation.”

Sorry, Midnight — late breaking news has bumped you off top billing, but if it helps the economy recover, maybe we can upgrade your dog food.

I’ve spent today installing a new comment manager at paulwilkinson.com, and have decided to convert from using categories plus pages to categories. So here’s my old “Ranching” page in the form of a post. Hope you enjoy it. (As you can see, I’ve also updated the site’s “theme.” Please leave a…

These eight sentences from Peggy Noonan in her Wall Street Journal column this morning are the best I’ve read in a long time:

Dynamism has been leached from our system for now, but not from the human brain or heart. Just as our political regeneration will happen…

The New York Times Book Review has an interesting piece on Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety