5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (483+ words) Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election “convention” will be a “Trumpapalooza.” It’d be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional…...

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2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (87+ words) [Continue reading at National Review]. John Yoo, Nonresident Senior Fellow Political theorists are not interpreting it; they are using the Constitution to advance a political theory. BY John Yoo ON 13 Aug 26 BY John Yoo ON 21 Jul 26 Threats against Supreme Court…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (747+ words) Thirty years ago this month, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), popularly known as welfare reform. When the legislation was signed, no one could have known how profoundly this bipartisan reform would reshape…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (220+ words) At a recent hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on “Exploring Process Approaches for Addressing Social Security Solvency,” Ranking Member Senator Wyden said the following in his opening statement: Senator Wyden appears to be referencing Senator Whitehouse’s April 2023 bill, the…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (290+ words) A recently released memo signed by Deputy Secretary Feinberg on “Supplier Cost and Pricing Transparency” may be the worst and most damaging piece of defense acquisition and industrial policy written in the last 50 years. It essentially returns defense contracting to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (273+ words) The conceptual flaw in the payment error rate formula The payment error rate formula is shown below. It is equal to the sum of all benefit payment errors E divided by total benefit payments B, where the errors and benefits…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (381+ words) Democracy in America, Volume 2, Part I, Chapters 13-21 Aristocratic literature grows within a small world: writers and readers share an educated class, its conventions, and its standards of taste. Writing for connoisseurs who expect precision rewards patience and polish. Tocqueville is…...