| Oct 30, 2013 | Peace / SecurityOur bloated military budget contributes significantly to our massive national debt and threatens the very security it’s intended to provide. Several expensive and unnecessary military programs are behind this paradox. The Pentagon should cut them from its $640.5...
| | Rights / DemocracyTea-partying Republicans supposedly pine for smaller government, lower taxes and, of course, the Affordable Care Act’s demise. The conventional wisdom is that these rigid, Republican extremists need to be countered by “moderate” Democrats who will...
| Oct 23, 2013 | Economy / BusinessOn a damp Friday morning, 11 days into the government shutdown, a few dozen truckers took to the Capital Beltway to tell lawmakers they were angry. They were protesting big government. Yet opinion polls showed that Americans opposed the government shutdown and were...
| | Economy / BusinessIt’s been a long couple of weeks. Our government just wasted billions of dollars on a shutdown that accomplished nothing and dragged down economic growth as a close encounter with the debt ceiling loomed. And the deal that ended this impasse sets Washington up...
| Oct 16, 2013 | Peace / SecurityHere’s a lesson on how the federal government and its contractors can turn a relatively modest project into a massive boondoggle. Back in 2005, officials at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) persuaded Congress to...
