There’s a good scene in the Kevin Costner–Bruce Greenwood Cuban Missile Crisis flick Thirteen Days in which Michael Fairman, who plays then-UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, puts himself forward as the weakling in the room as the Kennedy administration’s inner circle…
Washington made an agreement that congressmen will vote on as early as today. The country awaits to see what sits behind door number one in this real-life version of Let’s Make a Deal. The thumbs down or thumbs up awarded…
The meaning of “hubris” has evolved over the centuries. Today, it has come to mean too much pride and even an insolent sense of self-confidence. One of the definitions of the word “ύβρις” in ancient Greece was disregard for the…
Whenever we have a national conversation about government debt, Democrats invariably respond that spending is not the reason the debt is now nearly equal to our national GDP. The real cause of our indebtedness, they inform us, is that taxes…
The most remarkable aspect of Machaela Cavanaugh’s engineered meltdown on Friday pertained to her profession: state legislator. Reason and rhetoric once acted as currency in deliberative bodies; volume and emotion now do. Cavanaugh chanted, banged the podium, teared up, and…
The debt-ceiling standoff has people concerned about what will happen if the U.S. defaults on its debt. I certainly hope both sides will come together to avoid this outcome. But it is still worth reminding everyone how incredibly precarious the…
Joe Cunningham, an occasional fellow contributor at my site The Hayride, had an incisive piece at RedState on Monday that discussed the latest Team Biden gambit in the deepening fight over the debt ceiling. It seems that the latest trial…
Barely two weeks ago, it didn’t look like House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had enough votes to pass a bill to increase the limit on the U.S. national debt. On April 19, when the California Republican released the Limit, Save, Grow…