Posted on November 20th, 2009 by Oskar Chomicki
The American political class is perennially obsessed with which party will come to power and what agenda it will implement, but, in some respects, this is a shortsighted view. Ultimately, victories for partisan legislation may pale in significance to constitutional changes. (Here, I use “constitutional” in the sense of the broader political system, the balance [...]
Filed under: Congress, Conservatism, Courts, Election, History, Politics, Uncategorized
Posted on August 27th, 2009 by Philip Giraldi
Those who are interested in issues like widespread corruption of our elected officals by foreigners have no doubt followed the ex-FBI traslator turned whistle blower Sibel Edmonds saga for the past few years. Sibel has finally testified in court under oath about some of the things that she learned while working for the bureau. The [...]
Filed under: Congress, Foreign policy
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Sheldon Richman
Why should the people get something through government–that is, at the point of a gun–simply because they want it?
The rest of my weekly TGIF is here.
Filed under: Congress
Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by Sean Scallon
In the wake of recent political news, that of Arlen Specter’s switching of establishment parties and the GOP’s loss in a New York Congressional District in which it had a 70,000-vote registration edge, its tempting to start thinking of the Republican Party as being on its death bed and wishing that another “conservative” party will take [...]
Filed under: Congress, Politics
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Scott McConnell
An explosive event on Capitol Hill. About 150 people crammed into a hearing room with seats for 70 to hear Congressmen Keith Ellison (D. Minn.) and Brian Baird (D. Wash) report on their last month’s trip to Gaza. The indispensable New America Foundation sponsored.
The atmosphere evokes, I dunno, 1965. Something is in [...]
Filed under: Congress, Foreign policy, Uncategorized
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by Sean Scallon
Just as the problems of filling several vacancies to the U.S. Senate highlighted the need to repeal the 17th Amendment, so too has President Obama’s failure to find someone, anyone, to be Secretary of Commerce highlights the utter worthlessness of the entire department.
The Commerce Department, originally known as Commerce and Labor, is a Progressive era [...]
Filed under: Congress, Economics, Trade
Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Sean Scallon
I don’t know whether to laugh, chuckle or scream whenever I hear some right-wing social democrat (a.k.a Republican) politician talk about how the United States is “sliding towards socialism” as South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint put it in response to Obama’s stimulus package. In fact, if you Google the phrase “sliding towards socialism” you’ll find it being [...]
Filed under: Congress, Economics
Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Scott McConnell
I can’t really improve on this superb post by occasional TAC contributor Glenn Greenwald. Among the main points: how the slavish, every T crossed and I dotted adhesion to the Israeli line by virtually every member of Congress is not the position desired by a majority of the American people. And [...]
Filed under: Congress, Foreign policy, Uncategorized
Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Scott McConnell
Nothing against Caroline Kennedy, who is a perfectly nice lady, good mom, etc. But is there any reason that New York’s appointed senator can’t be someone who just once has said something courageous and correct, or had an original idea on a public policy issue and expressed it? Why should [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Scott McConnell
Change we can believe in! Well, maybe a little bit. Washington feels very different. I’m sure there are a lot of things about the Obama administration I will hate. But, for a moment, let’s feel optimistic. Yesterday Trita Parsi’s National Iranian American Council held a big conference on how the [...]
Filed under: Congress, Foreign policy
