Author: danps

George Bush has an unmistakable propensity to drain everything around him, and we are all poorer for it. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.Prodigal:1.    wastefully or recklessly...

Promoted by Steven D. Recent events leave no doubt as to the nature of the 110th Congress, and what an ugly nature it is. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears. A little over two months ago I wrote that...

We have more to lose from our representatives frightening us into letting them obscure their activities than from legally requiring them to disclose those activities as a matter of course. For more on pruning back executive...

Time’s columnist is not a neutral observer of a partisan fray but an active supporter of a viewpoint that is deeply hostile to our civil liberties and traditions.Joe Klein’s meltdown over the past ten days or so has...

Here are some thoughts from Congressman Lamar Smith about the RESTORE Act:”Democrats today failed to protect the American people by ignoring urgent requests from the intelligence community to update tools and modernize...