Taking us to the ground for a point The air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky.
From time immemorial, a government that doesn’t want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public to try to turn it against spending cuts. In keeping with this so-called Washington Monument strategy, the White House canceled tours in the immediate aftermath of sequestration. In an escalation, the Federal Aviation Administration has f...
Times are a changing The political strategy of divisiveness is thriving in this country, and neither party has the stronger grip.
On the national level, criticisms from the right of twice-elected President Obama are that he is a communist, foreign born, a Muslim, or all three — charges that reveal much more about the accuser than the accused. The left counters by embracing class warfare, saying that Republicans are for the rich, and don’t care for the middle cl...
