Americans for Tax Reform and Deficit Reduction

ATR founder Grover Norquist proferred the following conflicted assertion:"The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spedning, not to focus on the deficit."Yet the deficit is part and parcel of Big Government, which demands relief for the huge...

Cut spending . . .But where, and How Much?

The Republicans, since taking power in the House of Representatives, have become the poster-party for internecine faction-fighting (also in the growing Republican minority in the Senate). To close widening expenditure gaps in the federal budget, either the government...

Maine Politics and Politeness

Politesse, grace, the refined qualities of political discourse, such elements which describe Maine politics according the "The Economist", are the very niceties which are plunging this nation into the black hole of never-ending deficit spending.The two...

Hampered by a hormone: Tested by Testosterone

Men are suited for doing great things, sometimes destructive, sometimes nonsensical to the female brain, but still great things.I do not believe that studies which spin such spurious correlations have much to tell us about the critical importance of fatherhood, or its...