Last month, the Democratic and Republican National Committees held their party conventions where they adopted party platforms and nominated their presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2020 election. While … READ MORE
Republicans
New Year, Same Shutdown Theatrics
As this week ushers in both 2019 and the start of the 116th Congress, it can hardly be ignored that parts of the U.S. federal government remain shut down. The … READ MORE
Let’s Settle for a Slowdown
We’ve now entered the twelfth day of a federal government shutdown. Or so we’re told. I say that because to call what’s happening a “government shutdown” is pretty much a … READ MORE
Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan Share One Common Regret
Most public leaders have regrets when it’s their time to go, and typically they admit where the historians and the press will create holes in their legacies. The most famous … READ MORE
Judicial Supremacy in the Age of Congressional Weakness
In our scandal-driven political climate, lawmakers often find their gaffes turned into multi-day news stories. One such recent gaffe by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in which the senator … READ MORE
Bipartisan Senators Seek to Eliminate Beerbots, Edible Insects, and Peanut Stockpiles
Senators Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) just introduced the Removing Excessive Dollars to Uproot and Cut Expensive Government Waste Act - or the easier to say title: … READ MORE
One Congressman’s Plan to Save Congress
Déjà vu. Congress is once again toying with a government shutdown that can only be avoided by the political maneuvering of a select few leaders in Congress. Year after year, … READ MORE
Tariffs Beg the Question to Administration: Do You Even Econ, Bro?
In what is bound to be the least surprising headline of the year, it would seem that the tariff war between the United States and her trading partners is not … READ MORE