While listening to the latest ranting of The War Party, I couldn’t help be reminded of the Meredith Willson play, The Music Man. Robert Preston played "Professor" Harold Hill when the play opened in 1957, and reprised the role in a 1962 film production with Shirley Jones as Marion Paroo, and little Ronny Howard as her younger brother Winthrop. Hill is a confidence man who sells instruments and uniforms for boys’ bands, and wants "to go wherever the people are as green as the money." But, after learning from a fellow traveling salesman how Iowans were full of guile, he … Continue reading Government Is Like a Con Man