I have to admit, I never really understood Halloween. Oh, as a kid it was fun to dress up in costumes, and the candy... I understand all that. I just don't get the idea of having a day to celebrate scary things. Christmas,...
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The Ultimate Veto
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The framers so designed it to be awkward, contentious and cumbersome. They did so to make it difficult for any one man or group to seize so much control that another bloody revolution...
F in Tyranny
Say what you will about American exceptionalism, one thing we don't do well is tyranny. There have been some fantastic tyrants throughout history, the pharaohs, the Caesars, some of the British monarchs, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung; but where...
Segway To Disaster
Politicians and pundits often suffer from the same vision problem; they find it difficult to see beyond the most recent polls. The ability to see past what people think, to what they will think when it begins to matter, is...
Governing The Salad Bowl
The reaction to Ted Cruz's twenty-one hour tirade against the Affordable Care Act, has been a study in diversity. For many he has become their knight in shining armor, the champion of the dismissed and ignored; for others he is the...
Oh Behave!
Now that we have apparently averted Armageddon in Syria thanks to the dynamic duo of accidental diplomacy, the Dark Knight and John Kerry, the Boy Blunder; it is time for the nation to turn its attention back to the recurring...
The Trouble With Tyrants
In a classic example of the old adage that it's better to be lucky than good, John Kerry appears to have accidentally stumbled into an exit route for the corner President Obama had painted himself into regarding Syria. Make no mistake,...
Coalition of Enemies, A New Red Line
There is little more important to discuss this week than the crisis in Syria; and plenty of people are doing just that. Having already covered the crisis itself here and here, let's move beyond all that and have a look...
The Better Part of Valor
Having painted himself into the proverbial corner, President Obama this weekend is grasping for a way to escape the impossible situation he had managed to place himself in vis-a-vis Syria. Having recently had little use for congress, he has...
Paying For Your Free Lunch
From time immemorial Mankind has fantasized about ways to become wealthy by creating something costly from something common. Alchemy, the Perpetual Motion machine, solar energy... Each generation, it seems, needs to learn the lesson their fathers learned before them, and their...