Politics
Life in a Glass House
Kenneth the Page Becomes a Man
Philanthrogovernment
Bad Company
WASHINGTON—So who is in charge of stopping the oil spill, BP or the federal government? The fact that the answer to this question seems as murky as the water around the exploded oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico suggests that this is an excellent moment to recognize that our arguments pitting capitalism against socialism and the government against the private sector muddle far more than they clarify. READ MORE >>
Biden Takes A Poke At Blumenthal
The vice president was speaking at a barbecue for wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center. According to Jordan Fabian at The Hill, Joe Biden was talking about returning veterans from Vietnam. And then the ever-precise veep admitted that he “didn’t fight in Vietnam. I don’t want to make a Blumenthal mistake here. Our attorney general from Connecticut, God love him.” READ MORE >>
How They Did It (Part Five)
Wiki-Constitutionalism
Last year, Hugo Chavez amended Venezuela's constitution and abolished term limits. The entire business was a bit odd, but not because the constitution was changed, which is quite common in Latin America. Nor was it because the changes involved extended his rule (which is equally common). No, what was unusual about the constitutional reform of 2009 was that abolishing term-limits was all it did. READ MORE >>
