December 2, 2014
Enjoy Low Gas Prices While You Can
At my local Exxon Station, gas prices haven’t gone down much. But that’s not that surprising. D.C. has really high taxes and it’s a full-service station and it doesn’t have much competition. I go there on occasion because I usually...
December 1, 2014
Making the Senate Work: What Mitch Learned From Harry
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) Mitch McConnell has learned several things from Harry Reid about how not to run the Senate. Much to the surprise of his colleagues, he is going to apply those lessons next year. First and foremost,...
November 27, 2014
May Flowers
April showers bring May flowers. The Epigaea repens is a delicate flowering plant that was prevalent at Plymouth Rock, especially in the early 1600’s. It was so prevalent that the 100 or so religious separatists who made Massachusetts home named...
November 26, 2014
The Legacy of 1877
I am reading a book entitled 1877, America’s Year of Living Violently by Michael A. Bellesiles. It’s a book about, you guessed it, 1877. You think we have problems today? They pale in comparison....
November 25, 2014
An Omni is Better Than A Short-Term CR
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Should Congress pass an omnibus appropriations bill or a series of short-term continuing resolutions? An omnibus appropriations bill, or “omni,” in Hill-speak, is an amalgamation of the 12 regular spending...
November 21, 2014
Executive Orders: A Short History
The President’s power to issue an executive order is not spelled out in the Constitution. And for the first 75 years or so of our Republic, an executive order wasn’t even made public. They were just directives...