Month: March 2009

When so-called Democratic ‘moderates’ make a big fuss about balancing the budget, I’m somewhat sympathetic. Right now we need the government to spend money to make up for the lack of investment coming out of...

Yesterday, Carlatta Gall of the New York Times did a piece that has all the hallmarks of a Scooter Libby/Judith Miller roll-out. On the eve of Obama announcing his policy for Afghanistan, Ms. Gall reports that the Afghan and...

I don’t know whether to praise the Republicans or pity them. On one hand, they’ve been given chance after chance to "bring it," in term of ideas to address the crises we face — an act of astounding...

(Crossposted from the day job.) Last week, when the fury over AIG bonuses was just peaking, I read something that jolted me out of own anger and into a realization: After a transformational election and at the beginning of a...

What Chris Bowers’ proposal of whipping up   public anger to make big institutions responsive to the public is up against is the lure of the sinecure that brings most of congressme to their...