The treasury secretary is fortunate that the GAO has done his work for him. Let him cut the areas of waste and duplication so that he can send out the social security checks on time...
The Congressional Budget Office not long ago forecast that Barack Obama’s $1 trillion-plus annual deficits — scheduled over the next decade — would result in almost another $10 trillion in aggregate debt...
Gul establishes a proposition that, in my opinion at least, should be pretty obvious: that Guantanamo habeas jurisdiction does not survive the release or transfer of the detainee from Guantanamo...
Budget talks between President Obama and Speaker Boehner fell apart yesterday after the Speaker called the President and said he would instead negotiate directly with Senate Leaders Reid & McConnell...
I normally have a pretty good read on the D.C. Circuit in habeas cases. Not this time. Al Alwi, one of the decisions which Wells posted yesterday, took me rather by surprise...
I've been pointing out for years...that the Trust Fund is a fiction whereby one part of government owes money to another part of government. But what I had failed to do...is follow the implications of that fact...
The on-going drama over raising the debt ceiling in the end isn’t about economics and math...What complicates this solution is...the competing ideals and interests of various factions...
Unintended consequences strike again. This time the issue involves high school athletics and the legal requirement - the famous Title IX of the Civil Rights Act forbidding discrimination on the basis of gender...
We'd like to suggest that President Obama take a closer look at how President Reagan dealt with that "economic hardship," and how he steered the nation toward what would turn into its longest peacetime economic expansion...
For more than 40 years, climaxing around the first Earth Day, the public has been bombarded with apocalyptic tales of disaster regarding population growth...Four decades later, the world hasn't come to an end...
