Month: November 2010

I haven’t been following the debate over the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act which is now being debated in the Senate. But it seems like a set of reforms that are long overdue: The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, a...

If you say stuff like this, you might be a redneck. “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery. Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America?” — Jack Kershaw, League of the South board member, 1998. If...

I’m sure the American people went to the polls two weeks ago thinking that it would be a good idea to put a racist in charge of immigration policy in the House of Representatives. As one of its first acts, the new Congress...

… is alive and well, thanks to the Democrats and President Obama. What industry, you ask? The American automobile industry: Seventeen months after veering into bankruptcy, General Motors has become the unlikely darling of...

As we just learned, it’s easier for Republicans to pick up House seats in blue and purple districts during midterm elections because turnout is low and the people who don’t turn out come disproportionately from the...