Month: October 2013

I wouldn’t use the word “insurmountable” in this sentence. Maybe “irrepressible” would be more appropriate. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted Tuesday...

Did the budget conference open with signs on conciliation or with a clash over taxes. Either way, the House is leaving town until November 13th, so there will be no more budget meetings between now and then. I’m glad that...

Since I don’t live there and only visit four or five times a year, I really shouldn’t care much about who becomes the next mayor of New York City. But, I have to admit, the fear that Bill de Blasio invokes on the...

I’m willing to be convinced otherwise, but I don’t think it’s a smart move to try to make John Boehner into the same kind of bogeyman that the Republicans turned Nancy Pelosi into in the 2010 midterms. Rather...

New York City police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, is considered to be such a moral reprobate that he was literally booed off the stage at Brown University today, prompting a stern letter from university president Christina H....