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23 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
There is an old saying that Social Security is the third rail of American politics: touch it and die. [read post]
26 May 2015, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Last week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After a dramatic slowdown in policing activity in New York City over the past few weeks, The New York Times reported yesterday that things are now pretty much returning to normal. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In my most recent column here on Verdict, I asked whether there is anything that the most extreme conservatives who are currently running the Republican Party could do that would finally convince the slightly-less extreme conservatives to leave the party. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After a dramatic slowdown in policing activity in New York City over the past few weeks, The New York Times reported yesterday that things are now pretty much returning to normal. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In September of 2014, I wrote a column here on Justia’s Verdict, “The Road Show Blaming Teachers for Society’s Ills Moves from California to New York,” describing a well-funded lobbying campaign that is trying to use the supposed crisis in public education to reduce or eliminate tenure for schoolteachers. [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 8:59 am
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16 Aug 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Why would anyone voluntarily leave a fulfilling, stable, important job? [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Earlier this year, Republicans could barely contain their glee, as they attempted to claim that the Obama Administration was being engulfed in three “scandals”: (1) claims that the deaths of four diplomats in Benghazi, Libya were caused by the Administration’s incompetence (or worse), (2) the revelations of widespread surveillance of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Administration, and (3) the admission by the IRS that it had used some popular conservative… [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For far too many people in the United States, the issue of “illegal immigration” evokes visions of people crossing the border from Mexico, intent on taking American jobs and using government services without paying taxes. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Back in June, a California superior court judge declared that a group of state laws governing the employment of public school teachers is unconstitutional. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In my most recent Verdict column, I described the cynical game that congressional Republicans have been playing with the Internal Revenue Service for at least the last two decades. [read post]
19 Dec 2012, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The post-election negotiations over the misnamed “fiscal cliff” (which I discussed in my most recent Verdict column) continue to keep the country on a rollercoaster ride. [read post]
30 Jan 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Failed Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan insists that if the United States continues “down this path, we will have a debt crisis. [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
A small debate erupted this week about whether President Obama’s defeat in the Senate over even the most minimalist gun legislation demonstrates that the President is a weak leader. [read post]
22 May 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
By now, it is becoming abundantly clear that there is no actual scandal behind the supposed “political targeting” of some conservative groups—and, it turns out, of some liberal groups as well. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As readers will well recall, in the 2012 elections, Republicans saw their hopes of defeating President Obama end in an electoral landslide, while their expectation that they would take control of the U.S. [read post]