April 17, 2013
Terrorists Never Win in America
In 1605, Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled English Catholics hatched a plan to blow the British Parliament to smithereens by tunneling under the massive building, rolling in kegs of gunpowder and lighting the whole thing afire just as...
April 16, 2013
Seeing the Big Picture
First published in The Hill. Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) were the highest-profile stars of the Tea Party Class of 2010. They successfully scared two centrists out of the Republican Party before a primary vote was even...
April 16, 2013
The False Sense of Insecurity
Here we go again. On my morning walk with my dog, I saw the Capitol Police friend of mine. We both shook our heads at the events that happened yesterday. Here we go again, we both said. More overtime is...
April 15, 2013
Lucky Tiger
Tiger Woods got lucky. He got lucky that the final round between Angel Cabrera and Adam Scott proved to be so completely fascinating that it finally overshadowed the Woods controversy. Woods should have been disqualified for filling in the wrong...
April 12, 2013
Greg Walden
Greg Walden condemns an unpopular proposal in the President’s budget and gets attacked by the right-wing. What is up with that? Walden is the popular, smart, hard-working head of the National Congressional Campaign Committee. His job is to elect Republicans, or...
April 11, 2013
Tea Party Put to the Test
Facebook is a great place to get a sense of some folks are really thinking. One guy from North Carolina posted something on Scott Brown. Said he was a sellout and a RINO. Said he betrayed the cause. This guy...