The Stopped Clock

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Fra...

Had Rand Paul been President on September 11, 2001, he would have fired somebody ... other than himself. We spent trillions of dollars, but...

It's never too soon for ridiculous political posturing : Today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate...

George Will has passed along the notion that, as the penalty for not buying insurance under the PPACA has been declared a tax, it will ine...

It seems that a few years ago, Bill O'Reilly got into a heated "chat" with Geraldo Rivera, over a drunk driver who had not be...

I am skeptical that anything will come of the proposal, not because of an evaluation of its merits but because it could undermine the syste...

Once the current "debt ceiling" pseudo-crisis has passed, assuming he is not able to achieve a resolution that takes the debt cei...

In what some might see as an attempt to defy a popular definition of insanity, I saw a link to Jennifer Rubin's comment, " How to ...

Mind you, he doesn't actually try to make a case for a balanced budget amendment, but he does display a fascinating disconnect between ...

Even if willing to excuse the incompetents, those who didn't want the criminals who helped take down the economy to avoid any consequen...

A few days ago , I suggested that when David Brooks fails to link to something that he is referencing and is easily available online, he...

According to Ezekiel J. Emanuel , IT is conventional wisdom that end-of-life care is an increasingly huge proportion of health care spendin...

I am not sure how I came to the page, but in going through the proliferation of articles I had opened in my browser with the intention of ...

The biggest problem we face in trying to balance the budget is that neither political party actually puts a high value on balancing the bud...

One of the central features of Social Security, and one that has helped insulate it from decades of effort to scale it back, is that it is ...

In response to David Hoffman's argument, "a national conversation about guns and violence, facilitated and sped up by the internet...