June 4, 2015
Avoiding Another Omnibus
President Barack Obama worked closely with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to pass trade promotion authority, also known as fast track, before the Memorial Day recess in the Senate. And he worked closely with Speaker John Boehner to pass a...
June 4, 2015
51-0
Unless you are naming a post office, it’s not easy getting a House Committee to vote unanimously for any single piece of legislation. Sure it happens from time to time, but making laws is a messy business, and except for...
June 2, 2015
Soft on Crime Begets More Crime
You don’t have to be a sociologist or a criminal studies major to figure this out. The headlines are pretty stark....
June 2, 2015
In the Wake of a Scandal
(This originally appeared in The Hill) How do you defend the indefensible? How do you justify the unjustifiable? When it comes to the latest scandal involving my former boss, Denny Hastert, I really can’t. This puts me in an awkward...
May 27, 2015
How the Church Lost Ireland
More than three centuries after Christ died, St. Patrick came to Ireland and converted the pagans to Christianity. The Erin Island is the furthest Western outpost of Europe (not counting Iceland and Greenland) and having the Irish convert to Christianity...
May 22, 2015
Murder in Northwest DC
In Hollywood, it seems like it is always Bulgarian mafia thugs who take a family hostage and demand a ransom. Of course, in Hollywood, those bad guys are messing with Liam Neeson. You don’t want to mess with Liam Neeson....