The National Security Agency currently is collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a …
Government
How to Fix the Post Office: Keep the ‘Last Mile,’ Outsource the Rest
A proposal to create a “hybrid” United States Postal Service would keep postal workers on their routes while allowing private companies to compete for mail collection, transportation, and processing.
Shinseki Stonewall
General Eric Shinseki, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, appeared on CNN yesterday. The interview was a nothingburger, but I suppose we should be grateful that the Secretary has offered proof of his existence.
The Wages of Moderation
This week’s print column on the latest, sad–but sort of hopeful–attempt at bipartisanship.
A Response to David Frum, Who Seems to Like the Obama Stimulus Better Than He Thinks He Does
Frum’s double whack at The New New Deal raises legitimate questions about green industrial policy.
The Obama Cabinet
I don’t have a dog in the Secretary of State hunt.* But I do have an idea about how to get both John Kerry and Susan Rice into the Cabinet.
As Government Reacts to Sandy, Lessons from Katrina and Other Natural Disasters
The politics and policy of emergency preparedness have changed a lot in the last seven years.
Fast and Furious Report Destroys Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
For more than a year and a half, everyone from House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa to right-wing provocateurs on Fox News have been lobbing fiery accusations about Operation Fast and Furious, including that it was a plot conceived by the White House for a variety of nefarious purposes.
One Nation on Welfare
As Democrats in Charlotte tell it, Barack Obama is helping out the most deserving Americans with federal spending. Last week in Tampa, Republicans accused the President of giving Big Government credit for the private sector’s …
Obama Cashes in on Auto-Bailout Success, but Skepticism of Government Remains
On Thursday, Pew released some timely data on three major federal undertakings that defined the beginning of President Barack Obama’s first term: the bank bailout, passed under George W. Bush just before Obama took office; the …
The Death of the Fairness Doctrine
“I would encourage you,” Rush Limbaugh wrote to President Obama in 2009, “not to allow your office to be misused to advance a political vendetta against certain broadcasters whose opinions are not shared by many in your party.” That, Limbaugh said, was what the President would be doing if he supported FCC rules regarding …
Eric Cantor and Barack Obama Finally Agree On Something
Here is House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in an interview today with the Wall Street Journal:
People are tired of the pain. They want to be given some hope. I think that sensible prudent fiscal management will be a foundation for that. We need to lay out a vision for how America can lead again, for how our young people, our
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