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“Every member in this chamber,” President Bush said during last month’s State of the Union address, “knows that spending on entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is growing faster than we can afford.”
How fast? U.S. ...
Recall how, after the Sept. 11 attacks, virtually any legislative bid miraculously morphed into a “security” measure? Opportunists re-dubbed a routine, pork-laden farm bill the “Farm Security Act,” and lawmakers introduced dozens of bills with ...
Whenever Congress assembles an economic “stimulus” package during a campaign year, the election season quickly degenerates into silly season.
Spooked by a sudden up-tick in the nation’s unemployment rate, jittery stock and home mortgage markets, and ...
Every taxpayer should have witnessed the testy exchange on the Senate floor last week between Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and the chairman of the conservative Senate Steering Committee, Jim DeMint (R-SC). Conservatives were frustrated ...
The Thanksgiving story is a familiar one. Or is it?
Two years ago, I wrote a column addressing the real significance of those early years in Plymouth Colony. Here is a slightly updated version of that story:
As countless children have been taught, the ...
“Showing apparent signs of concern over events in Iraq,” ABC News reported last week, Osama bin Laden warned his terrorist comrades that: “Your enemies are trying to break up the jihadi groups.” He implored them to “work in one united group.”
That’s ...
Liberals lawmakers again would like to exhume the obsolete Fairness Doctrine. It dates to 1949 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandated that broadcasters cover controversial issues in a “balanced and fair” manner -- i.e., give air time ...
Earlier this year, advocates of the Senate’s ill-fated immigration reform offered a quid pro quo: Grant amnesty and trillions in government benefits to some 12 million illegal aliens, and we’ll agree -- finally -- to beef up security at the border, ...
Remember the endless end-of-session confrontations between President Reagan and the Democratic-controlled Congresses of the 1980s? Former Speaker Tip O’Neill and his allies would bundle the year’s spending bills into one gargantuan package, quietly add ...
Principled conservative lawmakers have been called many things as they doggedly pursue their quest for smaller government. In the House, liberals have resorted to using the “f” word -- “fringe” -- to describe small-government conservatives who have ...
