Justice, fairness and flipping
And then along comes Cut 'n' Run Casey. We spend all last week listening to cut 'n' run Democrats talking about their cut 'n' run strategy for Iraq, and the...
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An administration in search of morals
Gee, the Republicans seem to have lost their moral compass since Tom DeLay quit Congress as House majority leader. Who knew it could get worse without that pillar of rectitude...
Government bent rules for Enron
A Houston jury convicted both Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling, despite the fact that Kenny Boy packed his Bible to the courtroom every day. Since it is a long and...
Our national laboratory for bad government
Last week, President Bush visited Yuma, Ariz., to tour a portion of the U.S.-Mexico Border by Border Patrol buggy. Maybe Jorge was doing a little measuring for the $3.2 million-a-mile...
When bad government gets worse and worse
Of course I am above sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So serious a servant of the public interest am I, I can boogie with the best: On my better...
Can we never question America’s Israel policy?
One of the consistent deformities in American policy debate has been challenged by a couple of professors, and the reaction proves their point so neatly it's almost funny. A working...
Cost of Congress doing business
We need to keep up with the daily drip, that endless succession of special favors for special interests performed by Congress, or we'll never figure out how we got so...
Putting Bush on the hot seat
On the premise that spring is too beautiful for a depressing topic like Iraq, I thought I'd take up a fun subject--global warming. Time magazine warns us to "Be worried....
Targeting press to twist truth
The Pentagon has once again investigated itself! And--have a seat, get the smelling salts, hold all hats--the Pentagon has once again concluded that it did absolutely nothing wrong and will...
6 years, and now he’s an internationalist?
It's hard to keep up with George W. Bush's shuttles between internationalism and isolationism. You may recall he first ran for the presidency declaring he was against nation-building and other...