A filibuster in the Senate means making endless speeches and deploying other obstructive tactics to prevent a vote on a measure favored by the majority, and persisting in the chatter, hour after hour, day and night, until the majority abandons efforts to pass the measure.
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While Americans without health insurance struggle with the problem of how to pay for medical care, many Mexicans don’t have that problem.
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At long last, a federal commission is trying to deal with the feminist regulatory outrages committed in the name of Title IX. The recommendations passed on January 30 by the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics are a timid start on the rocky road back from bureaucratic mischief-making, but we still have a long way to go.
Continue reading →President Bush is celebrating the first anniversary of his No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Education bill and hopes it will give a significant boost to his re-election in 2004.
Continue reading →Social Security, the so-called “third rail” of American politics, has just become more incendiary. The Bush Administration is proposing a change that is even more controversial than offering younger workers the opportunity to invest a small percentage of their Social Security taxes.
Continue reading →A new Republican majority in both Houses of Congress is gathering this month. It’s time to reaffirm some basic Republican principles and move ahead to achieve conservative goals in all three branches of government.
Continue reading →Even if President Bush didn’t actually engineer Dr. Bill Frist’s election as Senate Majority Leader, this regime change is perceived as a major extension of the President’s power because of their close relationship.
Continue reading →Henry Kissinger’s quick trip across the news headlines as chairman of the new commission to investigate the September 11 attacks was curious. I wish the nosy media, which love to indulge in the sport of “gotcha,” would apply their investigative talents to ferreting out the details behind both his appointment and his speedy resignation.
Continue reading →Bush did something Ronald Reagan never would have done in appointing Henry Kissinger to head the 9/11 inquiry, and then Bush did something Bill Clinton never would do by opening our highways to Mexican trucks.
Continue reading →The Daschle Democrats (bowing to pressure from their union constituency) resisted passing the Homeland Security bill prior to the election because President George W. Bush demanded wide authority to fire or transfer employees in the new 22-agency bureaucracy.
Continue reading →“They are coming after us, they want to execute attacks. . . . The threat environment today is as bad as it was the summer before Sept. 11.” In his October 17, 2002 appearance before the congressional joint intelligence committees, CIA Director George J. Tenet asserted that prior to 9/11 he was convinced that Osama bin Laden was planning to kill Americans, “and we reported these threats urgently.”
Continue reading →Bilingual education plays into the hands of the open-borders faction of both political parties.
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