Month: June 2013

Every Senate Republican except Dan Coats of Indiana (who didn’t cast a vote) just voted to sustain a filibuster against Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island’s bill to extend low interest rates on college loans. Independent...

The Beltway press’s defense of civility is breathtaking. Any lie can be told. And theory can be bandied about, no matter how little substantiation it has. But let the House chairman of the Oversight & Government Reform...

It certainly looks like the Obama administration took 50 USC § 1861 and really ran with it. I don’t know what they told the judge, but in obtaining all domestic (not foreign) Verizon phone records for a three month period,...

This Peter Beinart piece is kind of interesting. In 2009, Obama chose a Defense secretary and a national-security adviser Washington Republicans loved. This year, he’s chosen a Defense secretary and a national-security adviser...

I think I may never stop laughing if Marco Rubio votes against his own immigration bill. I can’t think of a way for him to make himself more ridiculous.