National Politics
Turning his Tennessean eyes to our neighbor to the north, Glenn Reynolds offers a useful suggestion: MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE HEATS UP: Rasmussen Shows Brown Within 9 Percent. This is huge given that it’s Massachusetts, and a [Scott Brown (R)] win would probably kill healthcare. I don’t know how his online fundraising is going, but so…
Glenn Beck this morning dissected remarks that Senator Tom Harkin made following upon the passage of a health care reform bill in the Senate. [Emphasis added in both quotes.] What this bill does is we finally take that step. As our leader said earlier, we take that step from healthcare as a privilege to healthcare…
Andrew McCarthy’s takedown of Attorney General Eric Holder is relevant for a number of topical reasons — the war on terror, generally, the strategy of treating the war like a criminal action, the decision to give terrorist masterminds access to the American civil courts, even as an international police organizations are freed from accountability. On…
It seems so innocuous, like a little book-keeping, this executive order from President Obama: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions,…
It is worthwhile to listen to Senator Jim DeMint discuss one critical aspect of the Senate Obamacare bill: Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) has thumbed through Harry Reid’s manager’s amendment and discovered some “particularly troubling” rule-change provisions, especially with regards to the proposed Independent Medicare Advisory Board, which he finds could be unrepealable John McCormack:…
Granted, Randal Edgar begins his report with equivalence between political parties, but it’s still surprising to see Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s offensive remarks achieve front-page, above-the-fold status in the Providence Journal. If anything, however, that attention only makes me more wary of our all-too-natural reaction. I’ve absolutely no doubt that Whitehouse derives enjoyment out of writing…
The Democrats are clearly in grabbing mode, and this sort of thing is not going to stop until we citizens of the United States make it stop: President Barack Obama’s Democratic allies in the House Wednesday muscled through a year-end plan to create jobs, mixing about $50 billion for public works projects with another almost…
A running interest of mine is the way in which individuals pile conclusions upon impressions upon experiences upon predispositions in such a way as to live as if in totally different worlds. Last week’s WRNI Political Roundtable piqued that interest with URI Political Science Professor Maureen Moakley’s heavily couched compliments of President Obama. The following…
Mark Perry observes (with charts) a progressive trend in American taxation: The Tax Foundation reported last week that more than 143 million individual income tax returns were filed in 2007, and 46.6 million of those returns had a zero or negative tax liability, setting a new record for the number of “non-payers.” This group represented…
Today’s been a bit of catchup, for me, as a means of remaining productive despite an utter lack of motivation. But I just had to break my rainy-day malaise to note this odd phenomenon, during a recession (emphasis added): In a surprisingly suspenseful vote, the Senate cleared a key parliamentary hurdle yesterday on a huge…