Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things...It is only in politics that this simple, common sense fact is routinely ignored...
We are entering the arcane world of budget process, so this could be tough sledding. I will do my best to distill the essential elements and simplify it...
...[J]ournalists who repeatedly declaim the state of the law in ignorance of–or without reference to–significant bodies of case law, do so at some risk of ridicule by bloggers...
