The 50-year Tug-of-War.
Since 1960, the country has been in a tug-of-war between those on the right that believe that one can only be truly free when one accepts full responsibility for one’s own life…
Author: Paul Gleiser
Did you ever think you’d miss Bill?
Have you noticed that Bill Clinton has been seen more lately? He’s now the elder statesman of the Democratic Party and he is exercising the privileges that go with that vaunted office. Is he teeing things up for a run by Hillary? The cynic in me might say yes but it’s too early to tell.
Raise your own taxes first, Mr. President.
The so-called “Bush tax cuts” are set to expire, Mr. President…
A Nation at Risk
By 1983, the fact that America had taken the wrong path on public education was becoming clear.
The unbearable cost of discount war.
I don’t personally know anyone who has been directly impacted by our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It just ain’t happening, Joe.
I prefer a vice president who is ridiculously political to one who is completely delusional.
The ‘Summer of Recovery’ that wasn’t.
On the third Sunday of July, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC’s This Week with Jake Tapper and declared that the summer of 2010 is the Summer of Recovery.
What is to come is epilogue.
Look up the word “epilogue” and one of the definitions you will find says, “the final scene of a play or story that comments on or summarizes the main action.” The word epilogue, thus defined, now applies to the Barack Obama administration.
Ideology is one thing. Results are another.
According to former Reagan budget director David Stockman, since the third quarter of 2008, the nation’s gross domestic product has grown at the rate of only $4 billion per month.
Obama’s Unforced Error
When President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term “bully pulpit,” he meant it in the most positive sense. He believed that the presidency was an excellent platform from which to articulate a belief or a position. How unfortunate it is, then, that our current president just wasted a fabulous opportunity to use the bully pulpit to accomplish something good, both for his presidency and for the country. The recent kerfuffle over the proposed mosque at ground...
Mr. President, less will be more.
A Reuters-Ipsos poll just released reveals that an overwhelming 67 percent of Americans believe that President Obama hasn’t devoted enough of his time to creating jobs.
C’mon Joe. It never was going to work.
Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM & FM, Friday, July 23, 2010. When you were a kid, did you ever get caught red-handed by your parents and yet try to convince them to ignore their lying eyes? Vice president Joe Biden did that in an exclusive interview on ABC’s This Week with Jake Tapper. In response to questions regarding the effectiveness of the $787 billion stimulus bill,...