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General Hayden lowers the boom: Gen. Hayden has explained to NPR that while he led the agency (for two years from 2006 through the end of the Bush administration) neither Vice President Cheney nor anyone else directed him not to brief Congress about the sketchy covert program directed at Qaeda leaders. This contradicts the silly [...]

Frank Miele: “Towering genius disdains a beaten path.” Lincoln warns us. “It seeks regions hitherto unexplored… It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving freemen.” That is an interesting turn of phrase, isn’t it? Lincoln would have us believe that for [...]

It’s that simple: If companies that are “too big to fail” are too big to exist, then bills that are “too long to read” are too long to pass. This sort of behavior — passing bills that no one has read — or, that in the case of the healthcare “bill” haven’t even actually been [...]

Scott Johnson argues a great deal of damage has been done: The questionable legality of Risen and Lichtblau’s conduct was reflected in the anonymity they granted to their sources. In their story they noted that they had granted anonymity to the “nearly a dozen current and former officials” who were the sources for the story. [...]

Former White House Communications Director Kevin Sullivan remembers Tony Snow: Tony certainly gave it everything he had in his all too brief time on this earth. Today marks the first anniversary of Tony’s death from colon cancer at age 53. He left behind his wife, Jill, and their three children: Kendall, Robbie and Kristi. Dana [...]

As opposed to the resident eugenicist, Clarence Thomas is a man of humility and history. Justice Thomas is not afraid to be the lone voice, nor is he afraid to return to first principles: At first Thomas was dismissed as a clone of Justice Antonin Scalia. But today even liberal analysts of the court concede [...]

Keith Hennessey sets out the arguments: Uh-oh. Why are the verbs now in the future tense? And what happened to the specific and oft-repeated prediction of 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year? Those are important language changes, along with the implicit admission that the stimulus has not yet “ramped up.” This did [...]

Can we even begin to imagine what a lack of innovation will mean? Lots of people are beginning to question the cost of President Barack Obama’s healthcare “reform” plans, and with good reason. (Just compare the original projections for Medicare with what it wound up costing in reality). But there’s another cost that isn’t getting [...]

Obama hiding proposed legislation: A few weeks ago, the Obama Administration officially abandoned the President’s “Sunlight before Signing” campaign pledge that the White House would post all legislation passed by Congress for at least five days before the President would sign it. In making this announcement, the Administration maintained that it would comply with the [...]