Month: March 2013

I grow weary of the stupid. Rand Paul asked Attorney General Eric Holder if he believed that the administration had the legal right to use drone strikes on American citizens while they are on American soil. It’s a...

The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart Bowen, has issued a final report to Congress, and it concludes that we wasted our time and money in Iraq. It looks like we spent an average of about $80 billion a...

For some reason, the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States sent me an email assuring me that despite the death of Hugo Chavez, “A special deployment of the Bolivarian National Police is expected to guarantee peace and...

I am going back to Ryan Lizza’s big profile of Eric Cantor in The New Yorker again, and probably not for the last time. The following excerpt made a strong impression on me, as well as several other people. What struck me...