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On the morning of January 8, Jared Loughner shot dead six individuals and wounded seventeen more–including Representative Gabrielle Giffords–outside a grocery store in Tucson, AZ.  Like clockwork, liberals were quick to blame individuals like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and conservative groups like the Tea Party for the tragedy in Tuscon.  Even when the facts showed no [...]

Recently I saw a clip (if I find it I will link to it) where Senate majority leader Harry Reid was asked about the solvency of Social Security.  His reply was that it was sound and nothing has to be done in the near future.  As Allan Sloan points out in The Washington Post, this is a [...]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released new unemployment figures, which showed the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent in June, down two-tenths of a percent from May.  If one isn’t familiar with the data, they would think that this is a good sign the economy is in recovery.  Yet the fall was not due [...]

Is Senator Harry Reid the worst majority leader of the past one hundred years?  Recent data seems to indicate that he is in the running.  Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest state unemployment data and Mr. Reid’s home state of Nevada clocked in at 14 percent—compared with the U.S. average of [...]

The unrest in Greece over the austerity programs the Greek government needed to implement is a harbinger of things to come in the United States and the rest of Europe.  The problem is the idea of entitlement by too many citizens—promoted by the very governments who they are rioting against. This was evident by the [...]

The so-called Democratic deficit-hawks based their vote on health-care reform on whether it paid for itself or not–never questioning if spending an additional $940 billion over the next ten years was a good idea.  Thus all eyes were on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and what its final score–i.e. what are the projected costs of health-care–would [...]

One argument made by President Obama and Democrats on why Congress should pass health-care reform is the polls say so.  They concede that a majority of Americans oppose the overall bill, but they point out when you ask them about the individual aspects of the bill, a majority of Americans like each of them.  So [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]