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Controlling Spending:

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla) has introduced an amendment to the Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation...

Colorado Delivers Body Blow to TABOR

By a slender 52%-to-48% margin, Colorado voters on November 1 passed Referendum C, suspending the sta...

Work To Do; Congress’ Numbers Down Too:

President Bush will never face election again, but every Republican U.S. House member seeking re-elec...

Bush Poll Numbers Still Down:

With the Harriet Miers fiasco and the Scooter Libby indictment still in the public mind, and with wha...

The Supremes, Alito and Stare Decisis

For Latin lovers, “precedent,” or stare decisis, means: To stand by decided cases, to follow preceden...

Frankensteinian Republicans

Have we forgotten the lessons we learned from Nuremberg?...

Gizzi on Politics: Week of November 7

W. Was There, Where Was Kilgore?; Ohio Dance Partners; More...

Stopping Illegal Immigration Starts at the Worksite

Attention Americans, including those in the big white house: The U.S. has an illegal immigration prob...

Hollywood Still Leery of Religion

After the last election, a Newsweek poll found 67 percent of Americans believe in the virgin birth of...

Senate Shame: Democrats’ Shenanigans and Republicans’ Fear of Leadership

Without warning last Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D.-Nev., invoked a little-used provi...

Today’s Democrats are Blinded to America’s Common Enemies

Political parties, by definition, engage in politics – obviously. It’s what they do. But the Democrat...

Our Jobs Just Got Tougher

The Judiciary Committee has decided not to consider Judge Alito’s nomination until January. (Clearly,...

Levee Malfeasance

John McQuaid of the Times-Picayune has an interesting piece on why the New Orleans levee system faile...

Tax and Spend Dems:

This year alone, senate Democrats proposed 31 amendments to raise taxes, attempting to rack up $530 b...