Monthly Archive: April 2016

The quadrennial bad idea.

Inevitably this election season the call will come to abolish the Electoral College. It was a bad idea four years ago. It will be a bad idea four years hence.

The VA as microcosm.

The Department of Veterans is nothing less than a microcosm of the entire federal government – a top-down Leviathan that is callously and willfully unaccountable to those it is charged with serving and to the taxpayers that pay for it.