In 1999, a bi-partisan effort led by the Democratic Clinton Administration and Republican leaders in Congress repealed the Glass–Steagall Act with the passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act. The Glass Steagall Act had prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and/or an insurance company, thereby blocking the [...]

Tuesday will mark the end of the Virginia Governor’s race and one would hope an end to statewide mudslinging. But if this rather dirty election campaign has taught us anything, it is that the type of mud that gets thrown around matters. Republican Bob McDonnell’s mud has been substantive. He has labeled his Democratic adversary, [...]

What does November 9th mean to you? To me, the day The Berlin Wall came crashing down at the hands of a people yearning to be reunited sure means a lot. It means the vindication of democracy over Communism, of human rights over oppression, of the rights of the people over the will of the [...]

Someone should go check Alfred Nobel’s grave and see if his bones are still rolling around from the news that broke early Friday morning. Seeing the prestigious awards he founded turned into a politicized stunt honoring people for what hopefully might happen would probably have upset him quite a bit. President Obama only needed to [...]

Amid growing pressure to punish CIA interrogators involved with torture during the Bush Administration, President Obama has chosen to create a new team of interrogators, under the control of the FBI Director, to interrogate key terrorist detainees. The “High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group,” (HIG) will be made up of members of various intelligence and law enforcement [...]

Republicans and other Americans with common sense deserve a pat on the back today, as the “public option” has been abandoned by all but the most leftist of Democrats with the White House saying it is not necessary for reform and even some Democrats declaring it dead. Apparently they finally realized that the protests and [...]

The diving poll numbers, changing of major campaign promises, and especially the infighting between Congressional Democrats on health care reform is a sign of what many rational political observers have known all along. American voters may have given the Democrats a “super-majority” in Congress and the keys to the White House, but this is still [...]

Many of you may have heard by now that Louisianan Audra Shay was elected as Chairwoman of the Young Republicans amid a storm of controversy that included racial epithets on Facebook, wholly inappropriate innuendos regarding her opponent’s sexual orientation, and some old-school bullying and card-checking at the YR Convention. While I am not an official [...]

Plenty has been said about President Obama’s response, or lack thereof, to the situation in Iran. This is one issue I will not attack him for. I do not think our dear POTUS fully understands that he is supposed to be “The Leader of the Free World” and I also think his Fourth of July [...]