As Congress begins to trickle back into Washington, the healthcare debate will once again reignite. This time, hopefully, things get serious. As I have written passionately before, this issue has been torn at the seams for all the wrong reasons…
For all the things I’ve been critical of Barack Obama on this blog, there are a smattering of positive things to report as well. A lot more than I can say for his predecessor. But, the Washington Post reports this…
In the hemorrhaging black and white debate that has arisen over the inclusion of that scary “public option”, the nuance has been lost on defining the difference between “universal healthcare” and the “public option”. For some odd reason, the two terms seem almost…
I buy the Obama Administration’s argument that healthcare reform is essential stimulus for the economy. Part of that is found in a provision first introduced by House Republicans and championed by a wide, “bipartisan” (you all know how I just…
The blogosphere is buzzing over rumors that the Obama Administration may ultimately “go-it-alone” on healthcare reform. A recent Rasmussen poll actually finds that support for reform drops significantly without a public option in the plan. 57% of Americans do not…
Physorg.com published an intriguing chart that tracks the opinions of Americans by state and age group for the past 15 years on their explicit support of gay marriage. The chart indicates a growing acceptance across state lines for gay marriage. …
While it remains unpopular amongst some conservative Republican members of the United States Congress, Big Gay News reports that El Paso, Texas passed an ordinace this week assuring that there would be no discrimination on the basis of sexual…
The confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor are stirring up battle lines that formed earlier this year when announced, battle lines that injected racism into a debate over who would be the next Supreme Court justice. A lot of ink…
What’s been interesting about the gay marriage debate as of late is how much its opponents have ceded the legal debate. In most debates in mainstream media today, there is a tacit recognition that they might not have a Constitutional…
Great presidents must make difficult and unpopular decisions.
Earlier this year, the Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court of the United States to deny an appeal from former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed under the military’s “don’t…
