Following yesterday’s introduction to the first  amendments filed with the 2011 House budget, here is a roundup of some of the more colorful caveats tacked on in the second batch released by the House Rules Committee today. Certainly no one can say Congress is lacking in its variety of pet causes (or pet peeves). –California [...]

Jeffrey Goldberg is right to be disgusted by the various attempts to make light–or to make a political point–out of the sexual assault and beating visited upon Lara Logan of CBS. The attack is yet another reminder that those cowering, sniveling members of the mainstream media who actually go out and report things are not so [...]

I’ve been waiting for this. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving dictator. Except, perhaps, the Supreme Leader in Iran.

Everyone seems to be outraged that President Obama has broken his promise to tackle entitlement reform and turned in a 2012 budget that ignores two main factors in ruinous fiscal outlays, Social Security and Medicare. Obama’s budget proposes cuts in discretionary spending, but in his State of the Union address in January he declared, “We [...]

Not exactly. South Dakota does have some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws–including, in violation of the Hyde Amendment, a ban on using state Medicaid funding to cover abortions when the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. But a proposal to expand the definition of “justifiable homicide” to include resisting attempts to [...]

A decade ago, after the endless and empty Bush-Gore presidential campaign, I decided that I’d had enough of journalism and quit my job as Washington Correspondent for The New Yorker to write books and chill for a while. As a transition to my new life, to take a break and clear my mind, I enrolled [...]