United States Senator from Washington since 2013
The Wall Street Journal’s view of Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that affirms religious liberty makes this wonderful point. Nancy Pelosi called the ruling “an outrageous step against the rights of…
While Jim McTague of Barron’s seems to place too much value on the notion of Congress “doing something” — even if that “something” has long-term, unintended negative consequences — his…
The partial federal government shutdown might be behind us, but Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute reminds National Review Online readers that another federal budget battle lies ahead in the…
Jim McTague of Barron’s devotes his latest “D.C. Current” column to the growing support for federal legislation that would force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes. This year in the…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek features a short article emphasizing the vast differences between Republican and Democratic approaches to the federal budget. On March 12, in what has become a rite…
Remember how, on Christmas Eve 2009, the U.S. Senate rushed to pass Obamacare by a 60-39 vote, with not one Republican voting for the monstrous bill that no one had…
Jonah Goldberg must have had fun with his latest National Review cover story, which devotes three full magazine pages to the distinguished record of Vice President Joe Biden. Among Goldberg’s…
If you support Medicare, does it make more sense to search for reforms that would preserve the program or instead to wield the unsustainable existing program as a political weapon?…
Last week, Democratic senators Patty Murray and Mary Landrieu penned a ridiculous piece for the Wall Street Journal, claiming that businesses can’t find qualified workers and therefore the federal government…
I anxiously await Sen. Patty Murray’s explanation for this.
There have been a couple of head-scratch-inducing news stories in the past few days involving the Veterans of Foreign Wars. First, the VFW announced that it was endorsing the opponent…
Not only is Bush being blamed for this particular bridge collapse, but the problems with all of the nation’s infrastructure are being blamed in Bush, the neocons, war supporters, you…