2012 might end up being the most significant year the gay-rights movement will face. The case brought up by Ted Olsen and David Boises (two legal superstars who came together on this case despite the fact that they once represented two polarizing sides in the case of Bush v. Gore) challenges the constitutionality of the [...]
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As the battered economy continues to stagnate, the number one issue in Washington is jobs. The dueling talking points of Democrats and Republicans have been repeated ad nauseam, but who really has the better plan to get America working again? In the United States, we are lucky to have fifty laboratories in which to test [...]
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The civil war in Libya has been dragging on for way too long. With the superior firepower of NATO forces, a supposedly successful “No Fly Zone” and a strong militia on the ground, why haven’t we been able to stop Muammar Gaddafi? The answer is more complicated than it looks: politics. The United States has [...]
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Guess who the Republican party wants to pay for the increasing debt limit ?—College Students. John Boehner and Eric Cantor made it very clear last Monday July 11th that they believe college students should bear a huge burden for the necessary debt limit increase. [1] They proposed that student loan interest payments no longer be [...]
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In the Spring of 2009, David Plouffe gave an interview about the potential Republican field in 2012. The name that he confessed to making him a “a wee bit queasy” wasn’t the current front runner Mitt Romney, the ever-populist Sarah Palin or the social conservative Tim Pawlenty. It was the nationally unknown former Governor of [...]
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It looks like my recent commentary, “Libya and the Hypocrisy of the American Left”, touched a nerve with one of my colleagues. Unfortunately, Mr. Grau’s eloquent rebuttal still exhibits the same flawed thinking as I identified in my original post. What Progressives cannot avoid, despite their best efforts, is that A is A. Gertrude Stein [...]
Continue Reading →“Mission Accomplished.” – George W. Bush We find ourselves in a situation far different than we did on the morning of March 19th, 2003. We are not on the verge of a protracted land war in a country that does not want us there. We do not have hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons [...]
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