As George Bush plans his speech unveiling the new-new Iraq strategy, the new Congress is looking at ways to make the displeasure that brought so many of them into office known. The 109th Congress had done quite a job of offloading as many of its powers as it seemingly could to the President, so options [...]
California and Massachusetts have signed into law compulsory universal health coverage. Laid up with a broken leg, Arnie announced California was going to make it’s 6.5 million uninsured, insured. As per usual, there’s a great deal of concern about how this will cause insurance premiums to go up, quality of care to go down, the [...]
…but apparently it better be the right one.
There’s been something of a dust-up since the election of Minnesota Representative Keith Ellison. Mr. Ellison has the dubious fortune to be doubly of note in Congress – first, because he is African-American (and the term “under-represented minority” is as true of Congress now as ever), and secondly, [...]
