Month: December 2013

In answer to Steve M., there is no need to be so pessimistic about how the press would cover a second government shutdown. Here is how it would work. The president, Harry Reid and Patty Murray would praise the budget deal and...

The GOP leadership needs to get on the same page. This morning, Speaker Boehner was indignant about outside conservative groups opposing his budget plan: House Speaker John A. Boehner delivered an uncharacteristically forceful...

Whether you are making it or viewing it, there’s not much that is more morally depraved than child pornography. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now linked to child pornography through his chief of staff. I’m sure Sen....

Ed Kilgore on the budget deal: If I were a congressional Democrat under orders to vote for this deal, I tell you what: I’d make sure to get as many of my colleagues as possible together on a public pledge to make measures aimed...