President Obama has decided to give back $20,000 worth of his salary to the Treasury Department to show solidarity with government employees who will soon feel the sting of the sequestration. Curiously, Richard Cohen, who usually falls on the liberal side of things, was critical of the President in a Washington Post article entitled “Obama’s […]
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3 stories today: Republican Rand Paul filibustered for half a day in the Senate because he is upset that the Obama White House is claiming the right to order unmanned drone attacks against American citizens on American soil. Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have complained about Paul’s complaining. It’s a surprisingly complicated issue.
There are things I don’t understand about this whole sequestration thing, like where the word “sequestration” comes from. Terms like “fiscal cliff” and “debt limit,” are pretty self-explanatory but “sequestration?” Huh? Really, though, I’m more concerned with the particulars than with the lingo. “Drastic budget cuts” have descended upon us, says the media. But that
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A variety of thoughts on the variety of things I think about it… Here’s why people get unhappy with our national politicians: When we listen to them it’s because we’re hoping they will offer solutions to the problems we’re facing. But when they talk to us, they’re hoping to get us to vote for them.
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I think we can all agree that the federal government is not operating at peak efficiency (Exhibit A: a 16 trillion dollar debt that is still increasing). The question is, what can we do about it? I’ve got a suggestion, and this time I’m serious. First: Define the problem. There are two difficulties with trying
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