A government shutdown is invariably the product of feckless, narcissistic, lazy thinking coupled with the hope of profiting from the politicized misery of [...]
January 21, 2018
Shut Down And Dance
Environ-Mental
It’s called the EPA, and it used to stand for Environmental Protection Agency. Now that Scott Pruitt is running the show, however, the acronym needs [...]
October 25, 2017
Jeff Flakes
It had been in the making for some time, but yesterday it became official. On the Senate floor, Jeff Flake, the junior Senator from Arizona, declared that [...]
October 25, 2017
Bluffing The Call
It’s true, it’s true, I have been incredibly lax in keeping up with my posting. Yes, I’ve been keeping somewhat busy, but it’s not [...]
October 18, 2017
CHIP Off The Block
Leave it to Congress to spend so much time dwelling on rushing a terrible new piece of health legislation that they whiff on the routine task of [...]
October 2, 2017
Jonesing For Relief
This past week is probably the first time many people have heard of the Jones Act, a relatively obscure law from the 1920s. It has come into focus because [...]
September 29, 2017
Three Sh*ts to the Wind
I’d like to congratulate the Trump administration on successfully making an article title go blue before his first year was done. I prefer to avoid [...]
September 11, 2017
Abbott and Cost Hell Eau
It’s hard to fathom the scope of damage done to Texas by Hurricane Harvey. Day after day, images of flood waters and devoured neighborhoods showcase [...]
September 8, 2017
The Man Who Won’t Be King
You’ve got to give it to Iowa Representative Steve King, he’s one of the few people in American politics who can out-Trump Trump. It takes a [...]
September 7, 2017
Does America Care Anymore?
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” exhorts a famous plaque on a famous statue, the emblem of America [...]
September 6, 2017