As the irrationalities of the "Medicare Modernization Act of 2003" unfold over the next few months, older Americans and their families will wonder how such a convoluted program could have been designed by a group of seemingly sane and straight-faced legislators.

The answer is that when you actually have three...

Grover Norquist, the Guru of our current Republican administration, has famously said "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." This week he may have partially succeeded in his goal.

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