Rich Lowry flags this as the “scariest passage” in President Obama’s address to the Congress (emphasis added): As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President’s Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger […]

I recently collaborated on two articles about the pending District of Columbia Voting Rights Act of 2009. Voting Representation for the District of Columbia: Violating the Framers’ Vision and Constitutional Commands By Nathaniel Ward and Andrew M. Grossman Lawmakers must reject any legislative proposal granting the residents of the District of Columbia a separate, voting representative […]

In its editorial attacking Republican governors for not accepting certain strings-​​​​laden federal “stimulus” funds, the New York Times argues that rejecting these monies retards the march of progress: “But even if new taxes are required at some point, the new federal standards would protect more unemployed workers than ever before and bring states like Louisiana, […]

It doesn’t much matter whether government actually delivers but rather whether it’s seen to deliver. The New Deal, for example, despite its repeated failures and cockamamie schemes, has nevertheless been judged a success by history.

What happens when the House of Representatives and Senate pass slightly different versions of the same legislation? Any schoolkid can answer that: the House and the Senate send delegates to negotiate a compromise bill. If only it actually worked that way. All too often, the negotiators don’t split the difference during the House-​​​​Senate conference, particularly […]

On Damon Linker’s definition of a “temperamental conservative” as a progressive.

Paul Krugman is wrong: Herbert Hoover did not cut federal spending.