We Need a Political Peel

by | Apr 9, 2017 | Politics

The tradition of ad-hoc cobbled-together investigations of politicians looking into their own misdeeds needs to be over. They can no longer be trusted to contain their factional warfare, they can no longer be trusted to act for the overall public good, if they ever...

The “Baseline” Problem

by | Apr 8, 2017 | Politics

Or… Context Is Everything As Trump (via executive order) and Congress (via the Congressional Review Act) take tiny nibbles out of the vast Gordian knot that is our regulatory state, the usual suspects do what they usually do: caterwaul, bewail and gnash teeth...

When The State Fails its People

by | Apr 5, 2017 | Culture, Opinion, Politics

Early last year, HBO offered up a new, expanded version of The Godfather I & II. Building on the idea behind the 1977 Godfather Saga, which presented the original two films in chronological order with some deleted scenes added back, the Godfather Epic runs a bit...

The Fear of Saying No

by | Mar 31, 2017 | Politics

Politics, it seems, is endless disappointment. Just as Lucy promises time and time again not to snatch the football away, only to send Charlie Brown tumbling every single time, politicians promise time and time again to honor their campaign pledges, only to drive...

Facts and Opinions

by | Mar 25, 2017 | Opinion, Politics

Despite the epic wipeout of the Democratic Party these past six years, despite the repudiation of progressivism that it represents, and despite the election of the Untethered Orange Id to the Presidency, the Left’s self-certainty remains unshaken and its...

Trumpkins and Trumpism

by | Mar 22, 2017 | Opinion, Politics

Donald Trump’s tweeting ways continue unabated, with some such commentary offered during James Comey’s address regarding hacking to a House panel. Trump’s behavior is by now so commonplace that we are no longer surprised or outraged by this...