Although I’ve disagreed with some details of their work over the years, I’m generally a fan of the work that United Republic and Lawrence Lessig (among others) do on the issue of money in politics. They’ve […]

It’s been about fifteen years since the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed, blocking the federal benefits that come with marriage from same-sex couples, and says that one state doesn’t have to recognize a […]

Boy, Rand Paul is sure killing it lately. I disagree with quite a bit of what he believes, but the media seems to be eating whatever he says alive, and he has been dropping some bombs that really hit home.

The […]

I’ll give the Paul Ryan budget one thing – unlike the Patty Murray budget plan, his plan does put the federal budget on a path toward being balanced… if you accept the economic growth assumptions (I don’t). The […]

Interesting tidbit from No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon, writing at the British paper The Telegraph. He draws an interesting parallel between how Obama and company have decided to use the closure of White House […]

The talking points coming from the left regarding Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray’s budget proposal sound good. Patty Murray and company would have you believe it’s balanced (it isn’t). They say that it’s fair, […]

That’s an awful lot of no’s in the headline, isn’t it? It’s fitting, because ‘no, no, no, no…’, along with something amounting to my forehead meeting my palm, is just the sort of reaction I get when I hear […]

The following is an email I got from what would probably be best called the Eliot Cutler pre-campaign for Governor in Maine next year. Anyone on their mailing list (which… if you’re a centrist or moderate and […]

This is the first of what I hope to be a life long column that focuses in on the views and beliefs that unite our country. I’m a bit of a poll junkie… not in a statistics addict sort of way, but because I like […]

As happens around this time of every election cycle, we’re starting to hear about Senators and Representatives that won’t be running for office when they come up for election in about a year and nine months. Just […]