If you’re like me, it’s difficult acclimating to the new Republican role as The Party That Wants the Numbers to Add Up. Forgive me, but when I see John Boehner, Eric Cantor and the rest striking the virginal pose, halos overhead signifying “zero dollars more than revenues allow,” I can’t help…
When fighting a fire, one strategy is to start another one. When a wildfire is chewing up acreage, setting a fire in its path and letting the intentionally set flames burn away available ground cover can dramatically slow the foe. That’s all we can ask in the face of America’s gun-death inferno.…
Self-evident. It’s what the founders called a certain assertion: All persons are created equal. This, too, is self-evident — or should be: A corporation is not a person. A corporation has no fundamental rights. It is a legal construct, like a parade license. A parade and a corporation both involve…
It's called Chinese handcuffs, a trick that perfectly illustrates why America’s in a fiscal pickle. The thing is, it's not tricky at all. Stick two fingers into opposing ends of the tight wicker tube. If they pull in opposite directions, the tube contracts and won’t release them. But if the fingers stop resisting…
From Associated Press: “The (Newtown) tragedy prompted calls for greater gun controls. But the NRA is resisting those efforts, arguing instead that schools should have armed guards for protection.” That intriguing parsing from the AP is most telling. The National Rifle Association is a separate branch of our government, a statutory…