The president has said he will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, current White House Budget Director, to replace Kathleen Sibelius as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, a cabinet post that has been much in the spotlight. The word…
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Washington Politics, Why The People are Odd-man Out
A man will fight harder for his interests than his right- Napoleon Bonaparte Background: Three Regime Models of Socialism In the thinking-the-unthinkable department, which I’ve sometimes asked you to do, I’m sure it’s crossed your mind that a less-than-benign dictatorship…
Article V, Selling Tainted Beef to the States
(Photo credit, Splitting the Herd by Frederic Remington, courtesy of Allen Ness) The Tucson Ring Almost everyone knows the story about Geronimo, how he broke out of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona and went on a rampage before he…