Month: November 2010

It’s a constitutional requirement that two-thirds of the Senate vote to ratify any treaties that the U.S. government signs. The New START Treaty has the votes to pass in this Congress but probably does not in the next,...

The Mustache of Understanding has a good piece up today at the New York Times that examines the viral lie that the president’s trip to Asia cost the taxpayers $200 million a day (or, about $2 billion total). He rightly...

And we were too deferential to our most zealous supporters. During election season, Congress sought to placate those on the extreme left and motivate the base — but that meant that our final efforts before the election...

Ten years ago, I hosted my extended family’s annual Thanksgiving get-together. Do you know what everyone was debating? How much longer Gore and Lieberman should continue fighting for the election victory they had won but...

Remember John Tyner, the “Don’t touch my Junk” guy who is being threatened with a civil lawsuit and an $11,000 fine for leaving the airport (after he had been escorted out of the security area by the TSA) after...