Archive for June, 2015
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Who Will Take The Crown
Posted on June 9, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Who is the Republican version of American Pharoah? It’s been 37 years since the last Triple Crown winner. It’s hard to find a horse...
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Old Hickory and the GOP
Posted on June 9, 2015
Andrew Jackson has long been credited with starting the Democratic Party. He brought the Western frontier to Thomas Jefferson’s anti-federalist (and anti-Wall Street) sect and created the party of the...
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Avoiding Another Omnibus
Posted on June 4, 2015
President Barack Obama worked closely with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to pass trade promotion authority, also known as fast track, before the Memorial Day recess in the Senate. And...
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51-0
Posted on June 4, 2015
Unless you are naming a post office, it’s not easy getting a House Committee to vote unanimously for any single piece of legislation. Sure it happens from time to time,...
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Soft on Crime Begets More Crime
Posted on June 2, 2015
You don’t have to be a sociologist or a criminal studies major to figure this out. The headlines are pretty stark....
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