Month: July 2013

Senator Rand Paul submitted an amendment to the Transportation and HUD appropriation bill that has nothing to do with transportation or housing (sorry, no permanent link is available). It was just tabled. It won the support of a...

That would be former Governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer. Way back in early 2009 as the healthcare debates were heating up, I undertook a study of the history, successes, and failures in the US health care “system.”...

If you’ve been following along, you already know about the three nominees to serve on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals who the Republicans plan on filibustering because, they claim, the DC Circuit doesn’t need any...

I will be interested to see how NSA apologists like Sen. Diane Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers respond to this. It appears to confirm that the safeguards we are supposed to enjoy against invasions of our privacy are limited to...

Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is like Jim DeMint on steroids, and that probably means that he doesn’t have much of a future in the U.S. Senate. DeMint burned so many bridges with his colleagues that a position at the...