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Who Really Shut Down Our Businesses and Schools? Nov. 01, 2022
A big issue that has emerged in the final days of the midterm election campaigns is the lockdowns of... Read More
Our First Lockdown Experiment Failed. Let's Not Try a Second One Dec. 24, 2021
Shutting down businesses and schools felt to many people like a natural response to the COVID-19 pan... Read More
Trump Rules! Dems Just Lost 2020 Election Feb. 03, 2019
Did you hear the latest economic news? I predict President Donald Trump just won re-election for 202... Read More
Shutdown Paused; Now Negotiate Feb. 01, 2019
President Donald Trump relented to heightening pressure Friday and decided to end the shutdown for n... Read More
Time to Get Rid of Nuclear Option to Force Budgetary Reconciliation Jan. 30, 2019
It's time to end federal government shutdowns once and for all. This tactic has been abused for deca... Read More
Shut Down the Shutdowns! Jan. 29, 2019
Gee whiz! Didn't we all get a lot out of the shutdown? Whether or not we sought it, we got the cynic... Read More
Give Federal Workers Some Shutdown Relief Jan. 25, 2019
The federal shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, has lasted for more than 30 days, with no end in ... Read More
Pettiness Won't End Shutdown Jan. 24, 2019
Now the budget standoff has become a petty grade school snit, leaving us to wonder how much worse th... Read More
President Trump Should Split the Difference on the Border Wall Jan. 24, 2019
In Washington, something's got to give. An irresistible force cannot keep butting against an immovab... Read More
The Shutdown Necessarily Continues Jan. 18, 2019
The Democrats have long supported securing the border. But it is a signature initiative from Preside... Read More
Wall Money for DACA Protection Jan. 16, 2019
Political compromises in Washington aren't easy to find these days, but for how long can an obvious ... Read More
Signals From Outer Space Jan. 15, 2019
We're taking a break from the increasingly ridiculous game of chicken playing out in Washington and ... Read More
Disaster Relief Is Overdue Jan. 11, 2019
Expediency is essential when it comes to disaster relief. That's a fact that need not be debated. Bu... Read More
He Said, She and He said Jan. 10, 2019
The budget shutdown is currently the second-longest on record, on track to break the 1995-96 shutdow... Read More
The Stakes Are Becoming More Costly Jan. 10, 2019
On Jan. 8, 2019, at 9 p.m. EST, President Donald Trump delivered a primetime national address from t... Read More
There Is More to Governing Than Government Jan. 10, 2019
Republicans and Democrats are carrying on in Washington as if the fate of the world depends upon how... Read More
Dems Should Swap Wall for Immigration Reform Jan. 10, 2019
Democrats are squandering an opportunity by taking a no-compromise stance to reopening the federal g... Read More
Strike a Deal on Wall Funding Jan. 09, 2019
It's depressing — but, at the same time, fitting — that the new Congress has come to tow... Read More
Government Shutdown: Money, Money Everywhere, But Not a Drop for a Wall Jan. 03, 2019
This is not our first partial government shutdown. Somehow, someway, from 1976 through 2017, the nat... Read More
Girding for a Shutdown Dec. 24, 2018
With every passing day, the likelihood of avoiding a government shutdown decreases. There was talk l... Read More
