Among the more silly bills introduced in Congress yesterday was H. Con. Res. 124, a resolution declaring outrage that President Barack Obama has failed to get on board with those who believe that government-funded travel to outer space destinations is part of a preordained destiny that must not be resisted.

It’s not about harm. It’s about hype. According to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, every year heart disease kills two hundred times more Americans than terrorist attacks killed in the peak year of 2001. In other years, heart disease deaths are hundreds of thousands of times more numerous than terrorism deaths. Yet year [...]

Could someone tell Congressman Ted Poe that there is no ban on incandescent light bulbs. It’s a conspiracy theory, an urban legend, a myth.

The House of Representatives rejected protections that might have saved the lives of the workers on the Deepwater Horizon and prevented the tremendous oil spill that resulted from its explosion.

Yesterday’s markup was an opportunity for reform of the abusive law, with amendments that could have brought the Patriot Act closer to compliance with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantee of protection from unreasonable search and seizure. Yet, every single reform that was offer was rejected by the House Judiciary Committee.

Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.

Ted Poe’s anger against Islam is more calculated to earn the support of voters back in his home district in Texas than to deal with any problem in New York City.

If residents of the 2nd district are looking for a representative who will be more active and responsive to offshore drilling problems, it seems that they’re going to have to wait for another couple of years

Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers are suffering from mental agony as a result of having been at war. They’ve got post traumatic stress disorder that’s characterized by a terror that the battle is continuing.

Responsible leadership from Congress will recognize that more than 20 years of careful analysis and observation, combined with rigorous testing, have led to the consistent finding that our planet’s climate is undergoing a significant shift, and one that’s likely to be caused in large part by human activities.