When Opinion Is Fact

As a quick addendum to my previous and, of late, extremely rare foray into U.S. politics, when both Paul Krugman - the New York Times left-of-center Op-ed columnist (and a Nobel Prize economist) - and his conservative counterpart David Brooks are of the same opinion (here and here, respectively), one can safely assume the opinion in question (hint: it involves Republicans and the debt ceiling) is close enough to fact.