Harry Mount
Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) began her line of questioning by asserting that her committee’s role is vigorous oversight of intelligence activities, adding a new angle to the discussion currently taking place in the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight…
Via Twitter: Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood the needs of the poor. He was committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President. His email address is given on Twitter as jserrano16@aol.com
May he rest in peace, despite his best efforts. Confirmation from the New York Times here.
A lot of numbers are thrown around — and ignored — in the debate over gun regulation. Are mass shootings on the rise? Is the United States the most violent nation in the developed world? Is a proliferation of assault…
The great Tim Carney, the Washington Examiner’s muckraking Mozart, lays into Virginia Governor and alleged conservative Bob McDonnell for supporting a new raft of tax increases and infrastructure improvements: The transportation bill McDonnell supports would hike sales taxes to 6 percent…
As your intrepid correspondent reported yesterday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has built her argument for a new assault weapons ban on two major premises, the first and most important of which merits careful scrutiny: Mass shootings have increased in the…
Live from the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, where the Committee on the Judiciary is holding its third hearing on gun regulation since the Sandy Hook Massacre: Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) opened by laying out her case for…
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) initiated a frontal assault on the basic premises of the proposed assault weapons ban, going after witness and Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn, whose retaliatory outburst drew boisterous applause from the public gallery, briefly disturbing order…
In an exchange with Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn explicitly rejected a practical distinction between correlation and causation in arguing that, from his perspective, the 1994 assault weapons ban was a policy success. The senator asked…
Jack Lew’s nomination to be Treasury Secretary has been voted through 19 to 5 by the Senate Committee on Finance. Chairman Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch voted Aye, Senator Grassley Nay after voicing great reservation in an on-the-record statement.
