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No Escaping the Scoreboard: How American Sports Hijacked Budget Season
America keeps asking why politics can’t stay out of sports — while watching politicians run the government like a talk-radio postgame show. WASHINGTON — Lawmakers arrived in hearing rooms this week armed with spreadsheets, talking points, and the absolute certainty that this would finally be the session where they focused exclusively on fiscal discipline. Then someone mentioned the Super…
Marco Rubio Schools Van Hollen: A Senate Smackdown and a Wake-Up Call for Term Limits
Washington, D.C. – Today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing was supposed to be a routine check-in on the President’s FY2026 budget for the State Department. You know — diplomacy, foreign aid, grown-up stuff. But Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen had other plans. Rather than ask a substantive question, Van Hollen took the opportunity to air his deeply personal disappointment in…
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The 'Toons Tell The Story ...
Yet again my cartoon folder is full to overflowing … I think gremlins are coming along and dropping the ‘toons in there while I sleep at night! Here’s the best of the lot, culled from various sources over the last few days …
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By: Kevin Trainor/Managing Editor. Twelve-term former Congressman Jim Moran pulls no punches. The son of an early NFL player, James ...
...Jack L. Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration, said the Obama administration’s pattern reflects how presidents usually behave, especially during divided government, and appears aggressive only in comparison to Mr. Obama’s having been “really skittish for the first two years” about executive power. “This is what presidents do,” Mr. Goldsmith said. “It’s taken Obama two years to get there, but this has happened throughout history. You can’t be in that office with all its enormous responsibilities — when things don’t happen, you get blamed for it — and not exercise all the powers that have accrued to it over time.”
Charlie Savage reports on President Obama's "We can't wait" theme.
