"Millions for Defense"
Eli Lake's first piece in em> Newsweek
Balanced Budget Amendments: Ineffective, Untried
The Balanced Budget Amendment has more support now than at any point in the past decade and a half. Nearly all Republican candidates for President support it in some form and many Democrats in Congress also have nice things to say about it. A look at states in the United States and countries around …
The Right and Wrong Ways to Cut Defense Spending
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria has a column today arguing for defense cuts and lauding the budget deal’s “sword of Damocles” over the Pentagon budget. Zakaria argues that the U.S. military should not be exempt from budget scrutiny and, in that sense, his argument is unobjectionable. But he ignores …
The Economic Left is Left Out of the Debt Deal
It is probably crass to cite oneself in an article, but I wrote a piece a few months ago in which I stated: Many Democratic voters support the Party because they see it as the party of social liberalism. While they may also support more government intervention in the economy than most …
Too Soon Old, Too Late Wise
I wish my defense hawk friends at the American Enterprise Institute and the Weekly Standard had discerned before it was too late that a budget framework that calls for: (1) no additional revenues and (2) big cuts in discretionary spending, is not a hospitable climate for a robust defense budget. …
Reid's $40 Billion: Yeah, Right
On balance, Harry Reid's plan for raising the debt ceiling and cutting spending looks pretty good to me. Congress will eventually need to do more but the plan he's devised is a fair enough middle ground: real spending cuts with no broad-based tax increases. One feature of the plan, an effort to, as …