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The conventional wisdom held that the Tea Party would power the Republican Party to its many victories on Tuesday.  It did not turn out that way.   The crucial factor in the GOP’s success was not the Tea Party, but the ...Read more

President Obama submitted a budget earlier this year that includes soaring debt and deficits that even White House Director of Management and Budget Peter Orszag admitted are “unsustainable.”   Perhaps not wanting to showcase an equally irresponsible budget, Congress is not ...Read more

I dreamed I was a butterfly

…Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being  a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Barack Obama, our first (soi-disant) Pacific President, has just been ...Read more

When President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on February 17, 2009, among other things he declared that …

“While we need to do everything in the short term to get our economy moving again, we must recognize ...Read more

Charles Schultz’s oft-revisited storyline is a useful parable for analyzing some of the politics of healthcare reform today.   Consider Lucy to be government proponents of various healthcare bills and plans; Charlie Brown, some concerned citizens; and the football, those various ...Read more