There are three serious dangers in the debate about the stimulus package. The first is that President Obama will think too small. The second is that he will think too bipartisan. The third is that the public will be swayed by myths, such as the claim that infrastructure spending just takes too long to gear up, or that the deficit is the paramount problem. Post-partisanship will last only until it's clear that Republicans will try to wreck his presidency -- and they will try.
Two questions we should demand Congress ask of Eric Holder before confirming him. The same two questions Mukasey refused to answer.
Why did Lincoln defend slavery so vigorously in his inaugural address, thus alienating abolitionists and progressives in his party?
This is nuts. No doubt Democrats have a tradition of tearing down their own presidents, but usually it takes a few years. Not now. The GOP must be chortling.
Let's not wish George W. any ill -- he's gone. But let us have no more Bushes in the White House. Ever.
If Tina Fey wins a Nobel Prize in Physics, will that make people start watching 30 Rock? Possible answer: Maybe?
Even if Madoff goes to jail today, he still doesn't face indictment for at least another 30 days. The grand jury has been given an extension to deliberate -- and some of us are baffled as to why.
President Obama's mandate includes two huge and imminent priorities -- an unprecedented "stimulus" to revive the economy and a plan that gets us out of Iraq. And then?
Federalism enabled the new United States to get off to a great start -- and eventually to become the biggest economy in the world.
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My sister Lizzie came into my room one day and played "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." It was early Dylan, and she explained the song to me: it's about William Zantzinger, a Southern bigot who had killed a servant.
The deeper problem is not consumers' dependence on credit but the American economy's dependence on consumer over-confidence.
Will Republican Governor Charlie Crist act quickly to solve the dangerous situation that GOP hearthrob Coulter and the state of Florida seem to have put abused women in?
While much has been made of the Kennedy and Couric comments, there was a troubling remark, largely overlooked, that Palin made about Barack Obama that was a flat-out, blatant lie.
We can simply temporarily change the rules to give people facing foreclosure the right to rent their homes at the market rate.
Barack Obama is like a relief pitcher who was brought in to pitch with his team down by about ten runs and is somehow expected to lead them to victory.
This is the nub of it for me with the Lefties: they do not truly understand who they are, nor what they are motivated by. The slightest bump in the road leads to anarchy or dissent.
Economically and culturally, the future of America and of the rest of world lies now in a different direction. It will depend on the vitality, diversity and creativity of all its people.
When journalist David Plotz took Provigil, he said it should be sold as "the boss' little helper." It makes you work better and harder than before.
