Month: February 2010

Governing with a GOP Gun to Your Head

So, Chuck Grassley wants to eviscerate the Estate Tax as the price for his cooperation with a jobs bill. Because you and I and everyone else just knows that the way to get the unemployment rate down is to let the Trustifarians...

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Criticism from the left

A year into the Obama administration, I can still say it exceeded my expectations the day that George W. Bush got into the helicopter and flew off over a bitter and disappointed John McCain. Everything since then has been gravy...

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Why the Nutters?

Here’s the thing, E.J….even if roughly a quarter of the people in this country are instinctively anti-government and opposed categorically to anything Washington does or proposes to do…they still tend to stay...

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Stating the Obvious

The Congressional Oversight Panel headed by Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren today released a report that states what everyone should know, but which most of our elite journalists and politicians are studiously ignoring:...

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The Israel Lobby goes to Europe

Now, like America over the decades, European countries can watch as their governing bodies fall prey to pro-Israel lobbyists ready to propose AIPAC-like legislation favoring Israel, especially censorship and defunding of...

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