Author: David Donadio
By • Oct 13,2008

All sticks, all the time

The now-predominant Republican presumption that every foreign policy problem can be solved, if only the U.S. gets nastier, is a cancer on conservatism and on the United States.  States acquire...

By • Oct 12,2008

Faster, Congressmen! Spend! Spend!

Barney Frank and fellow Congressional Democrats think the federal government should spend more money in the interest of economic recovery, and it looks like Republicans do, too.

By • Oct 12,2008

Can’t you smell that rat?

The federal government is going to spend a portion of the $700 billion it’s budgeted for a financial bailout to buy stock in ailing financial institutions. At this point, I...

By • Oct 10,2008

Powell endorses Obama

Where was this Colin Powell in February 2003? First things first: on foreign policy, and the message an Obama presidency would send about what an extraordinary and resilient country the...