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In yesterday’s Washington Post, there was an article about how members of Congress get the choice seats for the State of the Union address.  There is a picture of Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee and Eliot Engel saving their seats well before the start of President Obama’s address.   Basically it is first come, first served.  There is no saving [...]

Republican Scott Brown’s defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley in the election to complete the Senate term of Senator Edward Kennedy is in many ways the fault of the late senator himself.  Granted, no one—including Mr. Kennedy—thought a Republican would gain the seat.  Yet as the old saying goes, there are no certainties in politics. Hindsight being [...]

Last week I happened to catch a segment on CNN in which Wolf Blitzer was interviewing Colin Powell regarding the tragedy in Haiti.  They were discussing the use of the U.S. military in aiding the victims of the earthquake.  Mr. Blizter asked Mr. Powell whether he thought the military could do a good job given [...]

There has been much justified criticism of the way Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) handled the health-care reform bill—especially the political payoffs to various senators like Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE).   James Capretta and Yuval Levin have a good article in the recent issue of The Weekly Standard on this topic. No one [...]