April 14, 2011
A Long Way From Fort Sumter
Earlier this week marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history. A century and a half ago, rebel forces fired on Fort Sumter off the coast of South Carolina,...
April 13, 2011
The President’s Bold Speech
The President boldly put forward a brave plan to deal with our national debt problems. First, he wants to increase taxes, especially on rich people, notwithstanding that he had an excellent chance to do exactly that 6 months ago by...
April 12, 2011
Debt Ceiling
It was Alexander Hamilton who first took on public debt as a political issue. Hamilton understood that if the federal government assumed the debts of the states, it would not only take on great responsibility, it would also seize great...
April 11, 2011
Medicare
Amid all the talk of a government shutdown, Democratically-aligned outside interest groups started running commercials against Congressional Republicans about something that had absolutely nothing to do with the government shutdown: Medicare. This issue is where the Democrats hope to mount...
April 8, 2011
Shutdown Politics
I first got a chance to meet John Boehner when he came to the Congress in 1991. He entered the Congress with a bang, teaming up with the so-called “Gang of 7”, new Republican members who had enough of the...