June 19, 2013
The Right Bet on the Future
The Congressional Budget Office used dynamic scoring to predict how the immigration bill now winding its way through Congress would impact the deficit. That must really piss off conservatives who have long demanded that the CBO use that scoring method...
June 18, 2013
America’s True National Pastime: Spying
There’s a famous story about baseball legend Christy Mathewson. It was said that he was so honest that when the umpire called one of his pitches a strike when he knew it was a ball, he would demand that the...
June 17, 2013
Obama in Ireland
It’s good that the President and the First Family traveled to Ireland, and all of these news reports that make a federal case out of the cost are missing the point. It is safe to say that Mr. Obama would...
June 13, 2013
The Security State and Immigration Reform
I think Rand Paul has it about right. We need to be awfully careful that in our quest to “secure the border,” we don’t create an autocratic security state that monitors who gets hired, who gets fired, who does this...
June 13, 2013
Jedi Mind Trick Fail
The Ranking Member of the House Government and Oversight Committee tried to channel is inner-Alec Guinness the other day, but he failed spectacularly. Elijah Cummings, the Maryland Democrat, tried to pull one over on the American people earlier this week. ...
June 12, 2013
Reading the Constitution on the Metro
Usually, when I am on Metro’s escalator, I stand on the right side and fumble through my wallet as I try to find my Metro card. This morning, I efficiently found my card before I even got to the station,...