I haven't blogged yet about Barack Obama firing Gerald Walpin, the Geroge W. Bush-appointed inspector general at the Corporation for National and Community Service, even though the story involves Kevin Johnson, the current mayor of Sacramento and one of my favorite childhood basketball players. But ...

David Herzenhorn of the New York Times reports that the Senate yesterday greatly expanded national community service programs like AmeriCorps. The bill sounds fine. But why did the Senate spend their entire three-day work week on an uncontroversial provision to expand federal volunteer programs?

Last week, Washington ...