One of the more interesting byproducts of the Tea Party Movement and the ideological battles going on within the Republican Party is that the tolerance…
The House has taken up a $30 billion supplemental appropriations bill to fund Afghanistan. However, the bill has ballooned to over $70 billon as the Democratic…
We all want the infrastructure market to pick up dramatically and generate jobs, build productivity, and create competitiveness. But there is a yawning gap between…
I peered nervously into my colleagues’ offices after reading this morning’s wrap-up of the Russian spy case: The operation, referred to by U.S. investigators as “the…
It’s been a tough year for the Democratic tradition in the U.S. Senate, with the loss of Edward Kennedy and the solidification of the Almighty…
First the giant stimulus package, then the ambitious revamping of America’s health care delivery system. Now Congress, under the patient prodding of President Obama, is…
It’s a curious truth, though not yet widely understood, that we pay for high-speed rail whether we have it or not. We pay not only…
A few weeks ago, the United Nations Security Council approved what have widely been hailed as the most wide-ranging and effective sanctions package against Iran ever….
Bruce Bartlett has a column up in today’s Fiscal Times that drills home just how far the Republican Party has veered from the center over…
Now that Gen. McChrystal is about to add “(ret.)” after his name, let’s examine the implications of the transition to Gen. Petraeus. The Washington Post…