What do these people have in common? Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum? That’s right. They are all Republicans who lost White House bids, either as presidential or vice-presidential candidates, either in the general election or the primaries.
They are also all key note or featured speakers at next week’s annual CPAC gathering…
Read More»
GOP
Unlike old soldiers that fade away in time, conspiracy theories in Washington rarely die. They linger in the shadows, waiting to rear their ugly head on Capitol Hill during slow news days or at opportune moments to further political agendas. In Benghazi’s case, the once dormant story reappeared last week after internal government emails surfaced,…
Read More»
Back to Benghazi – Why Republicans Are Wrong to Call it Watergate
Read More»
CPAC and Be Amazed
The Income Tax Amendment Turns 100 and It’s Worth Celebrating
Some self-professed patriots have convinced themselves that the Sixteenth Amendment was never properly ratified, and Republicans are launching new assaults on state income taxes. “America's founders rejected the income tax entirely,” they say, and we should follow their lead. These people misread history…
Read More»
No, The Constitution Doesn’t Protect You: Piers Morgan and the First Amendment
Born from the Republican radicalism of the English Civil War in the 17th Century, I always saw the Constitution of 1787 (with the BIll of Rights of 1789) as both a legal document and a social contract -- a vision, in writing, of what American society would look like and how it would function…
Read More»
2012: Legislating the Rights of Women
Most political history texts will remember 2012 for the Presidential election, the triumph (or survival?) of Obamacare, and Congress’s down to the wire (totally theatrical?) performance in averting the country’s economic fiscal cliff. But 2012 was also a big year for legislating the rights of women: access to health care, and the ability to claim autonomy over their bodies…
Read More»
