Month: May 2013

If I understand it correctly, the last time we had to raise the debt ceiling, the Republicans balked and decided to merely suspend the requirement that we operate with a debt ceiling. That suspension has sunsetted as of May...

The history of Jewish immigration to America makes for interesting reading. What can we surmise from the fact that Irving Kristol was born in Brooklyn in 1920 “into a family of low-income, nonobservant Jews”?...

I have to go vote and do some errands, but I want a thread for discussion of the Senate immigration bill. Apparently, Mitch McConnell supports it, which is interesting. It means that there is a pretty good chance that the bill...

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is acting like a presidential candidate. He’s checking all the boxes. He is apparently a prodigious fundraiser. He has an impressively progressive record. I am unaware of any major...

It’s not true that Al Gore invented the internet, but he did invent global warming, which was nothing but a hoax before Gore got his hands on it. So, it’s quite clear that the Democrats are using global warming to...