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GOP Wants the Best of Times for the Rich, the Worst for the Poor
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2010 Comment (22)In the Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Why in Washington is it the best of times for wealthy Americans, and the worst of times for poor people and unemployed Americans?
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Republican Grown-Ups Return--to the Tea Party's Irritation?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2010 Comment (2)Well look who strolled back into town? The Republican grown-ups.
And the Christmas presents they are bringing the country? A nuclear arms treaty with the Russians. Higher taxes. Earmarks. And a warm embrace of Hispanic immigrants, including the illegal ones.
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Congressional Republicans Look to States for Solutions
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2010 Comment (2)By all indications, the incoming Congressional GOP leadership will be looking to the states to provide answers to some of the nation’s most pressing questions. In the words of incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner, “Washington doesn’t have all the answers, and the best ideas usually come from outside the Beltway.“
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Congress Needs to Act in Response to WikiLeaks
Tweet Share on Facebook December 2, 2010 Comment (3)We do not as of yet know what damage the wide dissemination of classified government documents WikiLeaks, courtesy of its well-positioned moles, made available to news outlets will do to American security interests or to U.S. relations with other nations. As of this writing, it would appear that this latest document dump will have proved less harmful to troops and to intelligence sources and methods than the one that preceded it last summer. (We don’t yet know what potential damage may be done by the publication of other documents WikiLeaks has yet to hand over.)
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A New Constitutional Convention Would Risk Gun Rights, Abortion
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2010 Comment (11)Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has restated his opposition to the death penalty in an analysis in the New York Review of Books.
I read it, by chance, after hearing the news that certain Tea Party Republicans—including allies of incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor—want to call a new Constitutional Convention to tear up and rewrite our founding document.
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Senate Republicans Hold Firm Against Obama Tax Hikes
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2010 Comment (7)The split control of Congress produced by the November 2010 elections left some conservatives concerned that Republican senators would be less likely to stand firm on key issues than their counterparts in the incoming majority GOP House of Representatives.
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Condoleezza Rice Thrives Outside Government
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2010 Comment (5)CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--To watch former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speak so impressively at Harvard Tuesday night was to ask this question: what do we do to people in government and public life that squelches the very talents they bring to the job?
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Jimmy Carter Brings His White House Diary to Politics and Prose
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2010 Comment (5)Reader, here's a page from the diary of a liberal, one who dares to speak the name, even to etch it in the ether, how's that? Just to be clear, fair and square for foes and friends alike; hold your fire on musings mostly made of memory. Was it Nabokov who wrote: "Speak, Memory?"
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Can Mohamed Osman Mohamud Get a Fair Trial?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2010 Comment (3)I’m sure I wont be very popular for pondering the questions I will write about in this blog.
I have spent the past 24 hours speaking on national television, online, and on my national radio show about a 19 year old young man named Mohamed Osman Mohamud. A man many of you have come to know as the “would be bomber.”
