On Sunday afternoon, another government official quietly, regretfully handed in a letter of resignation to his boss. That’s not very big news in itself; after all, stories pop up every now and then of a minor official stepping down because of some embarrassment, slip up, or something else that causes pressure to quit to...
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Cablegate, the release of some 250,000 United States diplomatic cables to the whole world via the internet. Just like the Afghanistan and Iraq War Logs, various newspapers got early access to them, and are slowly reporting what they find; of course, the rest of the media is...
I was originally going to write this in as part of the last “In Defense of the Constitution” post, but after I realized that, once again, my writing on the First Amendment was getting to be long and detailed enough on its own, I decided to split it up. Originally, this post was supposed...
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Cordoba House, the name of the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero. What began as a simple local zoning matter became the latest flash point in our post-9/11 society almost overnight. What’s striking to me isn’t the fact that some religious organization wants to...
Welcome back folks, to another look into my mind on politics. I intended these ‘Brief Thoughts’ posts to be a daily, or near-daily, thing, and now that I’m all settled into my internship for the summer, I’ll make a shot at meeting that schedule. Of course, an interesting article from the Huffington Post the...
Well here we are folks, the moment we have all been waiting for (or dreading) has happened. The House of Representatives passed the Senate health care bill by a vote of 219-212 tonight following a full day of debate, the last six hours...
If there were ever an unfortunate name to have in politics, it would be the situation that Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) currently faces. As head of the House Rules Committee, she is being given the dubious honor of having a dubious idea to pass health care reform in the House of...
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