In search of sanity

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Reasonableness does not always yield results.

Who among us can define what rational means, standing before a dead girl's body?

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

They don't know, neither do they consider for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see and their hearts, that they can't understand.

They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Everyone, including bellicose trade unionists, tends to become more reasonable when the economy turns south.

But I don t see any institutional changes that have made them so.

But, the point is that scuba divers generally stay less than 100 feet deep, and very rarely go much below this, at least, not with any kind of sanity.

One problem is that, after a long period of fiscal prudence, Russia s government has shown extraordinary ineptitude.

So the choice between democratic discretion at home and external restraint is not always a choice between good and bad policies.

But perhaps it is now time for some discreet reflection on the fact that the old man will not always be with us.

A majority of the Fed s governors believes that aggressive monetary expansion has reached, if not exceeded, the bounds of prudence.

A return to fiscal sanity will be good in the long run, but it will reduce aggregate demand in the short run.

When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and grandiose visions can pose grave dangers.

Although their supporters wanted to make them permanent, claiming that they were temporary allowed for the circumvention of procedural requirements in the legislative process that Democrats had created in a vain effort to guarantee fiscal sanity.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Despite President Juan Manuel Santos wish for discretion, news broke in late August that the Colombian government was to begin negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

During that period, and after a year of protests and listening to advice on being careful from family and friends, the turning point arrived my mother was martyred at a Syrian regime forces' checkpoint in Aleppo. I lost a part of me forever.

CAMBRIDGE The tax package agreed to by President Barack Obama and his Republican opponents in the United States Congress represents the right mix of an appropriate short run fiscal policy and a first step toward longer term fiscal prudence.

Fiscal rectitude in the right place and the right time is to be commended but this is the wrong place and the wrong time and Germany s recovery prospects will be dampened.

But the global slowdown, which takes the fangs out of the strike threat, will keep private sector workers in line no matter how much their leaders may rant and rave. Everyone, including bellicose trade unionists, tends to become more reasonable when the economy turns south.

Nor do I see any evidence at all in favor of the third explanation. It would be nice if our financial markets were more rational than those of previous generations.

But if that is all that comes out of the BP calamity, it will be a tragic lost opportunity to restore some sanity to the United States national environmental and energy policy, which has increasingly gone off track in recent years.