Author: danps

This week the House Majority Leader came out strongly against revoking the telecom amnesty passed in last year’s FISA Amendment Act.  Taken together with his other major policy positions, has anyone done more active...

The attorney general announced a new policy for the executive branch’s treatment of the state secrets privilege.  But it is not so much a bold step towards greater openness as lipstick on a pig. For more on pruning...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently weighed in against a Democratic health care reform proposal, calling it a legal fiction.  It may be opposing it on grounds that are a moral one. Cross posted from Pruning...

The refrain from Washington has been that we need to look forward and not investigate credible allegations of wrongdoing.  Such an approach has become something of a Beltway tradition, but this time it looks especially...

One of Time magazine’s star columnists blew up over a seemingly minor incident several weeks ago.  Personal animus can’t explain the outburst, but internal turmoil certainly could. For more on pruning back...