The Wrap-up

Which governor has “one of the most consistently conservative tenures in recent American political history”? Hint: he governs the same state President Bush once did, and his first name is my last name.

$37 million for technology the Pentagon couldn’t use and didn’t want?

Free (ACU board member) Kirby Wilbur, pleads National Review.

Robert Byrd savors his reputation as the king of pork, yet his home state of West Virginia remains at the bottom of every economic indicator.

David Boaz explains the dissolution of the small-government ideal within the GOP.

Stephen Breyer’s dissenting opinion in Hudson v. Michigan, the recently and wrongly decided case concerning illegal no-knock raids, cites Radley Balko’s worrying study of warrants increasingly served by SWAT teams, in the wee hours of the night, armed with “flash bang” grenades, black masks and overpowering weaponry.

Joe Klein recaps the “relentless day-to-day ugly” that has consumed the senatorial tenure of Bill Frist.

A 1997 Cato essay shows why “government-sponsored entities,” like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, are corporate welfare kings and queens.