Health care reform is expected to dominate U.S. headlines for another week as the latest reform push is underway in Congress. While varying analyses place the odds for passage of the increasingly complicated reform scheme, opposition builds on both the left and the right. President Obama has nonetheless been hard at work pushing the proposals of [...]
This week has been a great one for conservatives across the nation. Scott Brown’s victory proved that, in the words of the increasingly vulnerable Barbara Boxer, “Every state is now in play.” His victory also demonstrated that Republicans can achieve many of the successes that led to Barack Obama becoming the 44th President of the [...]
With some form of health care reform poised to be enacted following the passage of a trillion-dollar, pork-filled boondoggle in the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve, reflection on the course of this policy debate and its broader implication for the trajectory of the Obama administration seem warranted. Whatever results in the coming months on the issue of [...]
It has now been more than a week since the U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping health care reform legislation. Yet, with what has been written about the bill since that time, one might think it was still being debated. Though there are many faults in the legislation, one issue therein seems to be sustaining [...]
The big news from Tuesday this week came with the announcements of gubernatorial wins for the Republican Party in both Virginia and New Jersey. While both of these states voted for President Obama last year, and are represented by Democratic senators in Washington, the former has traditionally leaned Republican in presidential contests, only going Democratic three [...]
Sarah Burris of Future Majority beats me to the punch in rebutting a blog post about a “Rising Tide of the GOP Youth,” as described by The Weekly Standard‘s Rachel Hoff. Burris writes: First, while Rachel is right to congratulate McDonnell for his campaign’s youth outreach, I hardly think it has anything to do with [...]
The news of the past week has shown that President Obama does not take well to criticism. If the Fox News flare-up was not enough to suggest this, then certainly the White House’s terse response to criticism from the Associated Press of dubious stimulus-related job claims was. Thus, one is left with reasons to worry about [...]
The White House this week advised mainstream media outlets against taking the Fox News Channel and its stories seriously. This would, of course, include stories like the ACORN scandal and the opinions of former Obama “Green Jobs” czar Van Jones who resigned amidst relevations relating to his signature on a petition endorsing a 9/11 conspiracy theory. Senator [...]
On the heels of my last blog based on a Facebook conversation I had with a friend, I received this message from a high-school friend who is now living in Brazil- Hey brad, I have just seen your protesting Obama pictures. I wanna ask you something… here in Brazil, we get the news that America [...]
Recently I received a Facebook message from a friend I hadn’t heard from in a while, which started off with “you have to be the most vocal person on my friend list about all things politics.” Intrigued, I read on. My friend was concerned about the healthcare crisis, and he had a problem I’ve found [...]
