Depression 2.0....Averted
I just finished reading an article by Robert J. Samuelson, (Newsweek contributor) explaining how close we got to the Great Depression 2.0. According to Christina Romer, the head of President Obama's Council of economic advisers, “We got pretty dang close.” ...

Afganistan :No easy answers
Liz Cheney must eat thumb tacks for breakfast because this morning she came out with both barrels blazing, as if the president had turned down the request of General McChrystal. She said the president replaced General McKiernan with General McChrstal ...

Why so cynical?
It seems like every time I turn around the right-wing has something critical to say about President Barack Obama. I understand politics, criticism, and a certain amount of skepticism and negativity but every single issue turns a molehill into a ...

Selective outrage?
I could not believe that Mika Brzezinski co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe”, was stunned that freshman Democrat Representative from Florida, Alan Grayson said” Don't get sick. If you get sick in America, the Republican healthcare plan is this: die quickly." ...

President Obama considers a strategy shift in Afghanistan
Despite an expected request for more troops in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is seeking alternatives, according to the New York Times. Bob Woodward of the Washington Post is holding onto a damaging report of our efforts in Afghanistan. It is ...

What are your solutions?
On any given day, you can find several letters- to -the editor, blogs, and other media outlets criticizing every single move that the administration makes. That's par for the course and there's nothing wrong with that but it seems more ...

Let's try a different approach
I think a lot of us think that if anyone disagrees with our point of view, that they are being led by outside forces. I know I'm guilty of that. My old fiscal conservative friends have always been leery of ...

Yesterday's News...Wow!
I woke up this morning to a very feisty "Good Morning, Joe” because yesterday seemed to be a “gotcha day” for politics in the news. The feed for “Good Morning Joe” was coming from Carlsbad, California, so the early morning ...

A divided nation
The United States is on the path of civil unrest and a culture war not seen since the Civil War. It doesn't have to be because “facts are largely absent, or buried under mountains of fiction” as Trudy Rubin of ...

The speech...My thoughts
President Barack Obama's speech last night turned the tide in his favor with a CNN overnight snapshot of a 67% approval from those who watched the joint session of Congress speech on Health Care Reform. It brought the ire of ...