Month: May 2014

BridgeTrolls: Back To The Future

Darryl Isherwood at NJ.Com asks today Was Bridgegate related to a $1 billion development project in Fort Lee? A new theory emerged this weekend on a possible target of the lane diversions at the George Washington Bridge that...

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Last Night Could Have Been Worse for GOP

Jaime Fuller takes a look at the results of last night’s primaries and concludes that the Tea Party is losing, and losing badly. Meanwhile, our nation’s most famous witch, comes to a different conclusion: I have to...

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Don’t Call It a Filibuster

Following on my last piece, Rand Paul is going to filibuster the nomination of David Barron to serve on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. But he isn’t going to do it by talking. He’s going to do it by objecting to...

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Change the Senate Rules Again

Under Rule 22 of the Senate, debate may be limited to thirty hours. This is the “cloture vote” that is used to overcome a lack of unanimous consent to move to the next order of Senate business. I’ve come to the...

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Casual Observation

The president may be a Kenyan anti-colonialist (that’s a bad thing, right?) but Dinesh D’Souza is a felon. And an adulterer. And he’s going to spend at least ten months in prison. Meanwhile, the president is...

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