A Tale of Two Parties

| February 17, 2011

Over the last couple of years, the country has seen hundreds of public demonstrations calling for fiscal responsibility. This movement has come to be known as the Tea Party. This week in Wisconsin, unionized public sector employees are having a conniption because they don’t want to make contributions to their own benefit plans that are […]

Scandal, Honor and Shame

| February 15, 2011

How a group handles a scandal involving one of its members says quite a lot about that group. On the American political Right, the GOP seems to have learned a lesson about scandal: cut the offender off, root and branch, and do it quickly. Get rid of the garbage. No more Mark Foleys, no more […]