Thursday, June 1, 2006

The Wrap-up

Another common-sense, good-government idea from Congressmen Henserling and Pence: reauthorize agency budgets every five years, or the budgets expire.

Put in a few years on the Hill, then become a lobbyist wining and dining your former bosses. Sound like fun? Then sign-up for the “revolving door” that is the House Appropriations Committee.

The FEC upholds free speech for 527s.

86 percent of the American people believe that the FBI should be allowed to search a Congress member's office if it has a warrant.

America may be ready for a new political party, speculates Peggy Noonan.

Robert Samuelson picks up where Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation left off in running the numbers on the Senate's immigration bill. Cato's Dan Griswold, like his colleague Alan Reynolds, takes a sledgehammer to these alarmist analyses.

Iran dismisses America's offer for direct nuclear talks as a “propaganda move.”

The distortions from Fahrenheit 9/11 keep coming: this time, a veteran who lost both his limbs in Iraq alleges that Michael Moore falsely portrayed him as anti-war.

More praise for the Pence plan on immigration, from the Indianapolis Star editorial board.

Jeff Jacoby joins the ever-expanding chorus of disgruntled fiscal conservatives.

Hillary Clinton “defies easy characterization”? So says a front-pager in the Post.

Cato’s energy experts, Jerry Taylor and Peter van Doren, continue to debunk myths about high oil prices.

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