Month: February 2011

I suppose this was to be expected. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) on Friday evening introduced a revised 2011 government spending bill that the GOP said will cut at least $100 billion in spending this...

The president hits on points and phrases I have used time and again whenever I’ve written about the Middle East. One Egyptian put it simply: Most people have discovered in the last few days…that they are worth something,...

Sic semper tyrannis (thus always to tyrants). That’s what Brutus said as he plunged the knife into his friend Julius Caesar, and also what John Wilikes Booth said after he unloaded his .44 caliber Derringer into Abraham...

Hello again painting fans. This week I’ll be continuing with the painting of the Cold Spring, New York structure.  I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on an 8×8 inch gallery-wrapped (thick) canvas....

Politicians love to announce their love of the Constitution, but a vote this week put the happy talk to the test.  Perhaps not surprisingly, there were a lot of failures. Cross posted from Pruning Shears.No Associated Press...