Tom Toles Archive: Federal government

Side effects

*** Under covers Reporters like to think of themselves...let me correct that...reporters like OTHERS to think that they are working tirelessly through the night to dig out the hidden facts that the American people need to know to govern...

By Tom Toles  | March 3, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (58)
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Bad faith healing

*** Help me out, here So explain to me again what the point of all those SUVs was. Why drive all that weight around to get to the same place any vehicle would have got you to? Why burn...

By Tom Toles  | March 2, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (79)
Categories:  Federal government, Health care, Obama White House  
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Air sick

*** Labor pain It's starting to look like labor unions share a trait with Democracy. Each is the worst possible form except for all the alternatives. The litany of complaints and charges against unions is long and well-known. I...

By Tom Toles  | February 28, 2011; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (56)
Categories:  Federal government  
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Political currency

By Tom Toles  | October 24, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (18)
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Can't we all get along?

*** Analogy warning! If you like ancient science fiction, George Pal's 1960 adaptation of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine will do. The protagonist, George, travels into the future and stops in the year 802,701. But for the purposes of...

By Tom Toles  | September 23, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (39)
Categories:  Congress, DC, Democrats, Federal government, GOP, Obama White House, Polarization  
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Taking off

*** More hot air I still enjoy the comments section here, though I'm somewhat at a loss to explain why. Yesterday got quite lively. But there seems to be a loyal band of maniacs lurking in there who tell...

By Tom Toles  | September 8, 2010; 12:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (40)
Categories:  Congress, Federal government, Obama White House  
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