I'm rested and relaxed after two days at this wellness-lite resort in the desert two hours east of San Diego--an effect of the vast saturated-blue sky, the 650, 000 acres of nature preserve all around, that cushy bed in my guest room, and, best of all, the laid-back approach to the mindfulness mission.
If the austerity-lite in place after the fiscal cliff deal tips the US into a recession, as it well might, President Obama and congressional Democrats will come to rue the payroll tax hike.
The mainstream leftists of the Democratic Party, peddling the same austerity-lite as Monti and Francois Hollande in France, hold a massive lead in recent polls over the movement of Bunga-Bunga clown prince Silvio Berlusconi.