Month: June 2013

The Whole Barrel is Rotten

Alexander Burns and Jake Sherman of Politico have a piece up about how hard it is for the Republican leadership to deal with their clueless caucus. How can you stay on message when you have a constant parade of morons making...

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A Thought on Immigration Strategy

One of the keys to immigration reform, if it’s going to pass, is that the Senate bill has to pass with some fat still on the bone. There needs to be some things that the Dems can give up in negotiations with the House,...

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No One is That Good

Well, you could argue that the FBI is just really well trained: Critics say the fact that for at least two decades no agent has been disciplined for any instance of deliberately shooting someone raises questions about the...

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Feeding the Stupid

There are a lot of reasons that people hate politicians, but one of them is that they so frequently do things not because they have any intrinsic merit but simply to score cheap political points. For example, Sen. Rand Paul of...

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