Having slammed Paul Ryan's budget in a previous piece, David Frum now tries to list what he likes about it. Not an unworthy exercise, but it’s worth noting that a lot of Frum's positive points assume we’ll eventually fold Ryan's plan into the structure laid down by health-care reform.

Frum praises Ryan's plan for abandoning the "death panels" meme and advocating on behalf of efficiency in health-care spending. He also notes that Ryan’s Medicare restructuring plan actually endorses the health-care act's exchanges and suggests moving Medicare and Medicaid entirely onto them.

Now that we have the names of the six witnesses who will appear at Peter King's hearings this week on radicalization within the American Muslim community, a few observations can be made.