A case for more aggressive spending cuts, and the potential pitfalls of the GOP “pledge”. Bill Wilson, Americans for Limited Government: So far, however, House Republicans have only promised to cut discretionary spending to 2008 levels, citing $100 billion in instant savings. Let’s assume for a moment they manage to get that done, get it through the Senate, and get Obama to sign a budget with those savings. If that’s

You do have to give John B. Judis credit for his TNR article “Four Myths About the Tea Parties (and why liberals are too dismissive of the movement).” The four myths he choses are genuine myths that have traction on the Left, to wit: 1. The Tea Party is not a movement. 2. The Tea Party is a fascist movement. 3. The Tea Party is racist. 4. The Tea Party

Thomas Sowell: For all its sweeping and scary provisions, ObamaCare is not nearly as important as the way it was passed. If legislation can become laws passed without either the public or the Congress knowing what is in those laws, then the fundamental principle of a free, self-governing people is completely undermined. Imagine. It matters how you get there… The very reason for holding hearings on pending legislation, listening to

Shelby Steele: How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign rallies of many of his fellow Democrats? The first answer is well-known: His policymaking has been grandiose, thoughtless and bullying. His health-care bill was ambitious to the point of destructiveness and, finally, so chaotic that today no citizen knows

For your consideration: Reason TV dramatizes attacks between Jefferson and Adams during the 1800 election. (thanks to dicentra, via Jonah G)

Gee. I can remember a time not too long ago where saying such things was unhelpful, its utterers “extremists” and “purists” who were hurting the GOP’s cause by alienating “moderates” and “independents”. Comity — that’s what was needed. A willingness to recognize the basic goodness and decency of Good Men like Barack Obama, whose disagreements with us weren’t at all personal, but were instead merely a matter of policy differences