Rudy Giuliani just introduced the outlines of a health care plan. Most of it, you will note, comes straight from the President’s 2006 State of the Union health care proposal. While most of it is recycled, I can only hope that this indicates a willingness to prioritize health care reform in his campaign. [...]

Hey Silence, how about an analysis of what’s going on in Japan right now with Abe’s party losing the elections…

According to this article, the newest tactic in the fight against gang violence is to sue the gang to create an injunction against gang members hanging out together. The logic being that if the gang can’t meet, then they can’t plan violence, drug smuggling, or other nefarious gang activities.
I’m not constitutional law expert, but [...]

Mitt Romney is an idiot.
In 2004 Barack Obama supported a bill in Illinois that allowed for the teaching of age appropriate sex education to elementary school students as young as Kindergarten. The bill specified such topics as knowing about the body, understanding basics about sexual harassment and abuse (as in, it’s not ok to [...]

A federal district court ruled yesterday that the city of Hazelton, PA has no right to pass anti-illegal immigration ordinances.  At issue were two laws.  One would have fined landlords who did not require proof of citizenship or visa when renting to immigrants.  The other made English the official language of the city, even to [...]

One of the biggest bills that will come out of Congress this summer is the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill will determine the size of farm subsidies, food stamp budgets, and determine the fate of any number of projects related to land conservation, energy, etc. It’s a massive and important piece of legislation, [...]

The University of Colorado just terminated the contract of Ward Churchill today. It was absolutely the right decision–and it has nothing to do with his statements regarding 9/11.
Just to remind you, Churchill first received national notoriety for comments he made comparing some 9/11 victims to Nazis. His point was that the Arab extremists [...]

The Democrats–along with quite a few moderate Republicans–are working on a drastic expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which offers health insurance to low-income children. The Senate passed a version of the bill last week and the House is expected to follow suit on a more expansive program this week. The extra [...]

The government has been paying farm subsidies to farmers who died over 7 years ago. I’m not a big fan of farm subsidies to begin with. And its things like this that reinforce my libertarian tendencies - when you get government involved, you increase the incompetence.
I can’t help but think of how much [...]

One of the great ironies of the Scooter Libby trial was that the same conservatives who have for years fought for high mandatory minimum sentences–and against allowing judicial discretion to reduce those sentences–ended up complaining that the sentence given to Mr. Libby based on those sentencing guidelines was too harsh.  Now we have the second [...]