by jpitney | Sep 30, 2025 | Appropriations, Budget, Congress
The Congressional Appropriations Process: Background and Potential Innovations By James C. Capretta, AEI Abstract: The courts should, and probably will, constrain the Trump administration’s aggressive push in 2025 to diminish Congress’s constitutional role in...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2025 | Civility
Bryan Armen Graham at The Guardian: By the time Europe finished the job, finally, on Sunday, the golf had the last word. But until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly...
by jpitney | Sep 28, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Michelle Ma and John Gittelsohn at LA Daily News: Of the thousands of residents needing to rebuild after this year’s California wildfires, Andy Weyman would seem especially well positioned. The TV and stage director had remodeled his Malibu home just five years...
by jpitney | Sep 27, 2025 | Free Speech
Don Wolfenberger at The Hill: One Florida member called on his followers on X to provide the names of those government workers who celebrated Kirk’s death. Compiling such lists is reminiscent of the McCarthy era in the 1950s when people were encouraged to report...
by jpitney | Sep 26, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government
Terry Castleman, Rebecca Ellis and Grace Toohey at LAT: Poor communication, understaffing, a lack of adequate planning and chaotic conditions contributed to a failure to issue timely evacuation orders to parts of Altadena as the deadly Eaton fire raced through the...
