Capping weeks of intense negotiation, this week congressional leaders delivered a solid, immediately applicable plan for the recovery of American fiscal discipline. Its highlights include complete phase-outs of Social Security and Medicare by 2025, aggressive and actionable plans to close five Cabinet-level agencies over the next two years, and genuinely independent audits of every office … Read more
Well, almost. It’s 61.5 oz. of it. Other Inglehoffer mustards remain available in my area, but the Sweet Hot variety has vanished from store shelves for some reason. It’s definitely systematic. I don’t know whether it’s regional, or the start of a discontinuation, or what, though at least one other person has complained of its … Read more
To me, the debt ceiling joke has served as the strongest indicator yet of just how bizarre this presidency is. I no longer believe, even slightly, that Barack Obama has any sort of articulable philosophy of governance. He takes a lot of criticism for being vague in these debt ceiling “negotiations,” but I am now … Read more