Month: February 2013

That was way back in 1992.  Brought to the political debate by the GOP “family values” standard bearer Dan Quayle: “It doesn’t help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown – a character who...

If you’ve been following the debate over the impending “sequester,” you have probably seen liberals quoting Speaker Boehner saying that he got 98 percent of what he wanted in the deal that created it. What you...

National Journal has ranked all the members of Congress on a conservative-to-liberal scale. They aren’t releasing their full results until tomorrow, but they have presented, as a teaser, a list of the 15 most conservative...

Congress continues to poll only slightly ahead of gonorrhea, just a tad above its historic low. On the up side, self-identified Republicans doubled their approval of Congress from 6% in January to 12% this month. Amazingly,...

The crescendoing drumbeat in Washington over the sequester—$85 billion in federal spending cuts scheduled to start a week from today—obscures a key point:  the sequester is only Act 2 in a 3 act fiscal play set...