May 5, 2018

A Giuliani-Mueller ceasefire?

A few days after announcing his plan "to negotiate an end to [the special counsel investigation] for the good of the country," Rudy Giuliani began acting in ways that seemed destined to prolong it.  For example, he is reported to ...

February 28, 2010

Obama and Charity

Continuing his lament over what he calls an "erosion of civility in the public square," President Obama chose the setting of this year's national prayer breakfast to admonish his ill-mannered opponents. "Surely you can q...

March 29, 2009

Obese Government Needs Bypass Surgery

Yes, the era of big government is over.   It's been supplanted by an era of obese government. Ignoring its own Surgeon General's warnings that obesity is hazardous to your health, the federal government has grown to outlandis...

July 7, 2005

Taxing the will to give

With increasing regularity, leaders of the National Democratic Party are seeking support for their economic agenda in, of all places, the Bible. Failed presidential candidate John Kerry, for example, persists in appealing to the New Testament book of...