“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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It’s bizarro land!
The Justice Department does something I like! It’s madness! Attorney General Eric Holder announced the (almost) end of a program called Equitable Sharing, when state law enforcement seize private property under civil assets forfeiture and turns it over to the feds, who then kick back up to 80% to the state and local law enforcement. […]
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Useless
My friend Jimmie tweeted this awesome picture about the latest government kerfuffle. Yes, the GOP rolled over again on borrowing more money. Same story, different day. Blah blah blah. George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” On the other hand, perhaps I see too much of the […]
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America, books, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, freedom, government, history, homeschool, liberty, U.S. Constitution
A bone to pick with the books
For our history studies, we use “living books” — i.e. not textbooks — and are basically just reading through American history. Now granted these books, especially those we use for the boys, are not 300-page, in-depth studies of all the twists, turns, events, and people who make our history. They’re 40-60 page summations that hit […]
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Your thought for the day
Apparently, Washington is getting closer to an agreement on the continuing resolution and the debt ceiling. Meanwhile, they’re working furiously to fix problems revealed with the ACA rollout. My thoughts on all of that: It is suggestible that one can treat the dysfunction either with the Kamagra tablet, and if you cannot swallow buy […]
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And what have we learned?
In my Washington Times Community Pages column, I’ve been posting an interview/primer on the budget process with Norm Ornstein, congressional scholar and political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute. If you haven’t read those, you should read them before continuing. Part 1 and Part 2. And now the last section of the interview is a […]
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Debt nostalgia
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A little (more) fiscal education
Yesterday I posted the first part of my interview with Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. In that section of the interview, he laid out the process as it’s supposed to run: Congress passes a budget resolution in April or May. Every year. Concurrently each house of Congress passes 12 appropriations […]
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#%*$, Communities, Congress, Constitution, economy, government misconduct, legislation, U.S. Constitution
You had one job, Congress, and you blew it.
Actually, they have more than one job, but allocating spending is a big one. To wit, Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution says, “No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall […]
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XKCD says what we’re all thinking
A link because there is a bit of foul language, and I like people to have a choice. More stories of the executive branch shutting down private businesses and evicting private citizens from property they own that is on federal land. (And if you’re curious, no this didn’t happen in the 17 previous shutdowns.) Let […]
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The hot mess continues
Day 3 of the shutdown and things are looking no better than on day one. It doesn’t look like the Republicans have any idea how to get themselves out of this mess because the whole idea of shutdowns is that it forces the two sides to come together and compromise. It’s like they haven’t been paying attention […]
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