The debate in Washington continues to be centered around conservative policy prescriptions. The popularity of tax cuts may be just a mirage, though, and the right kind of tax hikes might produce some genuine enthusiasm....
Read MoreWhen bad news breaks it has become almost routine for those at the top to disavow all knowledge and let the hammer come down on those well down in the hierarchy. The pattern showed up again twice this week, and is now so...
Read MoreIn the last few years there has been a steady erosion of 4th Amendment protections. Now in addition to chipping way at it through judicial rulings there appears to be a movement to weaken its very concept. For more on...
Read MoreOne of the bedrock assumptions of economic theory for the last few decades has never been true. When an error is both generally acknowledged and fervently embraced there is usually a good (and unfortunate) explanation, and...
Read MoreA detailed report on the Bush administration’s loss of millions of emails has been greeted as little more than a post mortem from several years ago. Even if it was only that, though, it would deserve much more...
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