Author: danps

I don’t have any problem understanding the Bush administration’s approach to executive power – it wants more, period. It seems much more focused on that than its predecessors which I explain via amateur...

The devil is in the details – sometimes even when there don’t appear to be any. This article originally appeared on Pruning Shears.This week has been, shall we say, illuminating.  Going into it my goal was to...

The left now bears as much responsibility for Bush’s executive power grabs as the right For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.- Ronald...

Originally posted at the Pruning Shears. One of the worst developments on the national political scene in the last few years has been the all-but-official declaration by the right that they consider themselves Republican before...