Barack, we’d like you to meet Lyndon and Dick.
No president can be president without the trust of the American people. Just ask Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
Author: Paul Gleiser
“Just where in the world are these angels?”
With as much power over our lives as is now vested in the federal government, the virtue of its leaders and functionaries becomes a concern of much greater magnitude.
The bathroom door.
Does it matter, if you’re doing nothing wrong, that the government is collecting your emails, your Tweets, your Facebook posts and monitoring you web browsing?
Power: dispersed or concentrated? (Big difference.)
Get a letter from GEICO and you most likely throw it away. But get a letter from the IRS and the room spins.
Texas: Good for Illinois.
Republican Texas governor Rick Perry is good for Illinois despite what Democratic Senator Dick Durbin might think.
The fourth branch.
The fourth branch of government consists of about 50 federal agencies under various cabinet-level departments that have over time accumulated astonishing autonomy to write and enforce rules and regulations.
Re: Bob Dole on todays’ GOP.
If today’s GOP has no room for Ronald Reagan, today’s Democratic Party has no room for John Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan or Joe Lieberman.
It’s not Obama we’re after. It’s big government.
Some people believe that the trifecta of scandals now engulfing the White House affords an opportunity to impeach President Obama. Those people are wrong. President Obama will serve out his term. To try to make it otherwise would be overreach. Besides, there are bigger fish to fry. President Obama isn’t the problem. The problem is big-government liberalism. And the opportunity to discredit that ideology is ripe. Since the 2008 campaign, the president has sought to...
Small government righties: not so crazy after all.
From this day forward, ‘IRS scandal’ will be useful shorthand for conservatives making their arguments against an ever-expanding government.
I distrust the government. You should, too.
As government grows it becomes at once less competent and more malfeasant – a belief that has been again recently confirmed.
Lessons from the lowly pencil.
If you centralized pencil making on Capitol Hill, pencils would be of one-tenth the quality at ten times the price – and the only way people would buy them is if the government used its police powers to force them to.
Benghazi: Can we get the truth, now?
Tomorrow, (05/08) Gregory Hicks, the former number two man at the American embassy in Libya, is scheduled to testify before Congress. The topic: the attacks of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya.