| Feb 18, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyIn The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy assessed the odd things she was experiencing and said to her little dog, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Lately, Sen. Pat Roberts has gained a new understanding of what Dorothy meant. The Kansas...
| Nov 27, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyWhat do you do when a faction of the U.S. Senate simply refuses to do a critical part of its job? That’s the dilemma that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faced in mid-November when the Senate’s Republican minority tried once again to stall the work of...
| Oct 23, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyWell, that was certainly worth 24 billion bucks, don’t you think? I mean the entertainment value of Sen. Ted Cruz’s faux filibuster alone was worth a couple billion or so. And House Speaker John Boehner’s face when he would come out during the...
| Oct 9, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyBarack Obama’s shutting down of the government is the most self-destructive thing to happen since Poland attacked Nazi Germany in 1939. Oh wait! It was Germany that attacked Poland, wasn’t it? Yes, but Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany, said that Poland was the...
