The people have already judged Roy Moore, and found him wanting, as they should have.
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As he promised, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought the Green New Deal up for a vote...
The retired Air Force fighter pilot would surely have a perspective to bring to the proceedings from...
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times' end-of-week tradition of bringing you links to stories from around the world and...
What we now have in this latest version of Trump v Romney is two men in whom...
Linky Friday is Ordinary Times' end of week tradition of bringing you linked stories from around the...
Much ink has been spilt since Donald Trump's election regarding the legitimacy of the U.S. government system,...
Each side is predictable in one respect - they overreach.<!-- They over estimate what it’s possible to...
A suggestion for a better way to handle the upcoming filibuster of Neil Gorsuch than discarding the...
Imagine a world where the leadership of the free world rests in the hands of one man...
A brief summary of the "executive summary" of the Senate's report on the CIA detention and interrogation...
In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by...
Yesterday I read the Senate Gang of Eight’s proposal on immigration reform. (Since when was Marco Rubio...
Fantastic article on the modern Senate by George Packer – it’s a long one, but well worth...
After the news of Senator Robert Byrd’s death broke this morning, I exchanged a couple of text...
I go back and forth on what I think about the propriety of the filibuster for legislative...
By Wyeth Ruthven Forget conference committees, any observer of health care reform needs to add the term...
by Kyle Mathews If there’s one thing that most political commentators and Americans can agree upon, it’s...
In an otherwise decent piece about Harry Reid’s continuing attempt to corral support for the public option,...
An unanticipated side-effect of Joe Wilson’s outburst has been a pretty interesting discussion of parliamentary procedure, both...
