June 11, 2013
Updating Democracy
Democracy is a process, not an endpoint. Things change in a democracy. The business cycle, war, demographics, pestilence, plague, disease and technology all change perspectives over the years. Conservatives at times love the state and at other times hate it....
June 10, 2013
Tread Carefully on E-Verify
Republicans have rightly condemned both the costs and the intrusiveness of Obamacare. They believe, and I agree with them, that the new law will increase health premiums, hurt innovation, cost a boatload of money (actually, more than a couple boatloads),...
June 7, 2013
Privacy in the Age of Exhibitionism
Privacy is over-rated. We say we want our privacy, but we really don’t care that much about it. The government wants the privacy to invade our privacy in order to sniff out terrorists. Despite the best efforts of Rand Paul...
June 6, 2013
Frager’s
About 8 years after my Grandmother was born, Frager’s Hardware Store opened its doors for the first time. It is unlikely that Grandma ever stepped foot in the Capitol Hill institution, but if she had, she would have felt at...
June 5, 2013
In Your Face
Let me get this straight. The person who told bald-faced lies on national television on behalf of the President is now the person who will be in charge of giving the President his daily security advice? Doesn’t that seem odd...
June 4, 2013
These Scandals Matter
“The question is, is that all Congress is going to do? Are we just going to be obsessed with scandal and trying to score political points, or the American people could not be screaming any more loudly, ‘Worry about us.’...