President Obama may deny it, but his plan to keep a close watch, if not control, over the U.S. Census Bureau sure looks like the perfect way to make sure his party is well-represented when the nation's population is counted next year. ...more

February 23, 2009

Times have changed. In 1996, President Bill Clinton, under siege from the right, declared that "the era of big government is over." ...more

December 30, 2008

No other country puts as much emphasis on "freedom" as the United States. Patrick Henry demanded "liberty or death." The national anthem calls America "the land of the free." Great reformers from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King have urged America to live up to its ideal of "freedom." When a group of French Americanophiles wanted to flatter the United States, they sent the Statue of Liberty. ...more

May 18, 2008

A recent secret survey of the House Republican minority by the party's whip organization showed a two-to-one margin opposed to imposing a moratorium on earmarks. ...more

May 5, 2008