Some months ago, in a radio interview to tout part of the Trump tax bill, the Whitewater Community Development Authority’s executive director Dave Carlson referred to Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner as ‘our guy.’ Sensenbrenner, a pro-Trump septuagenarian multimillionaire from a gerrymandered district, is – literally – Whitewater’s federal representative. Sensenbrenner has never been – and…
Congress
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Congress, Courts, Harassment, Law
The Kavanaugh Nomination
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The editors of America: The Jesuit Review, to which I am a subscriber, write that It is time for the Kavanaugh nomination to be withdrawn: Evaluating the credibility of these competing accounts is a question about which people of good will can and do disagree. The editors of this review have no special insight into who…
Business, Congress, Economics, Economy, Federal Government, Free Markets
Elizabeth Warren & Capitalism
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A reader wrote in to ask me whether I thought that Elizabeth Warren was a capitalist. The question stems from an article in The Atlantic by Franklin Foer (‘Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism.’) Frequent readers know that I link to The Atlantic often. (I’m a subscriber.) I’m also a free-market guy, so here’s a quick…
City, Congress, Politics
A Better Alternative for Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Local readers may have heard, as I have, that Whitewater’s Community Development Authority chairman recently thanked Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner for federal legislation. Sensenbrenner, for those unfamiliar, is a career office-holding septuagenarian multi-millionaire situated far from the city, serving in a gerrymandered district. (Sensenbrenner, whose only time is behind-the-times, once responded to concerns about online…
Congress, Fashion
Good for Her
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Martha McSally, a member of Congress from Arizona (R-02), chose to wear a sleeveless dress and open-toed shoes while speaking on the House floor. It’s not, to be sure, the most consequential act of these times, but the rules against such attire are unnecessarily restrictive. She’s dressed ordinarily for an American woman in the summer,…
Congress
Rep. Justin Amash Does Right by Constituents
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s a theory that a Republican cannot attend a town hall in a climate of protest – one hears endless excuses on why they cannot attend in-person events. Republican Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan proves all this false: one can easily attend and manage angry constituents if one is clear in one’s views and welcoming of dissent:…