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Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April 2011
Ike Reconsidered
How conservatives ignored, and liberals misconstrued, Eisenhower’s warnings about military spending.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2011
Clean Up As You Cook
Every generation, official Washington suddenly notices that the tax code has become unfathomably complex and loophole ridden and therefore needs to be simplified for the sake of fairness and economic efficiency. Major tax reform legislation passed in 1954, 1969, and 1986, and we’re due for another round. Indeed, there seems to be enough genuine interest […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April 2011
More Bureaucrats, Please
Washington’s budget hawks want to decimate the federal workforce to shrink the deficit. It will have the opposite effect.
Posted inMagazine
The View From A Small Town
Early on in the new Washington novel by Ben Wattenberg, who became famous as a man attuned to the hearts and minds of average Mid-western Americans, a White House speechwriter has lunch at Sans Souci with a savvy New York Times reporter, the kind of character who’s obviously there to say what’s on the author’s mind. The […]
