A bit wordy, that title, wouldn’t you say? Here, allow me: “Obama routinely bypasses Congress, conservatives say” You’re welcome. (h/t JD)
August 30, 2011
August 30, 2011
"On Company Taxes, U.S. Should Follow World Down"
Ramesh Ponnuru: Controversy over whether our corporate taxes are high or low is matched by controversy over who pays them in the first place. This issue recently made the news when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney informed a heckler that people pay the corporate income tax. But which people? The Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department have traditionally assumed that owners of capital pay the tax. More recent models,
August 30, 2011
Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Fitzgerald all let Scooter Libby twist in the wind
A most ringing indictment on our political culture is the extent to which Powell and Fitzgerald are held up as heroes and, I’ll say it, honorable men — to the point where we’re to care who an opportunistic “Republican” like Powell is going to vote for in 2012, having publicly supported a left-wing socialist in 2008. That Scooter Libby was prosecuted while Richard Armitage wasn’t even been sanctioned for what
August 30, 2011
Originalism, intentionalism, and the rule of law
Several people have sent me the link to this piece in the American Interest, so let me quote from it and provide my gloss, given that this site has long trafficked in precisely the kinds of arguments being attributed to Justice Thomas (not unsurprisingly, a man I have described over the years as the SCOTUS Justice I most often agree with): Toobin, who disagrees strongly with [Justice Clarence] Thomas about