In its first 100 days, the Obama administration did more to address global warming and the environmental crisis than the Bush administration did in eight years.

The new president is moving on many fronts. So far, Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider California's request to regulate pollution...

President Obama announced that we would add 4,000 more troops to the 17,000 he already ordered to Afghanistan.

In his address to Congress, he also announced that he would restore honest and transparent budgeting to pay for our military commitments. "This budget," Obama said, .... for the...

The Health Insurance industry is already gearing up, once again, to fight Obama's health care plans. This time it's not Harry and Louise, but rather cries of unfair competition with a successful model of government organized health insurance.

Insurance companies, along with other vested health care interests, have successfully...

Last month, two Pennsylvania judges pled guilty to accepting $2.6 million in kickbacks to send teenagers to the two private detention centers. One judge secured the contracts for the firms to house the teenagers and the other judge kept the centers filled by sentencing enough teens.

The judges, as...

Ben Bernanke speaks to Congress on Monday and declares his opposition to nationalization of banks and the stock market surges 200+ points. The next day, President Obama speaks to the nation and declares that the banks and the wealthy won't be able to prosper without the rest of us and...

Presidential honeymoons are opportunities for bold action. President-Elect Obama -- with the winds of hope behind his back -- has given every indication that he plans to land running to confront the extraordinary challenges we face.

Bill Clinton signed the stalled Family Medical Leave Act on February 5, 1993....

Greenspan...

Health Net, one of California's largest health insurers, saved $35.5 million in medical expenditures for people that needed life-saving care. They did it the easy way -- they just stopped paying, ejecting the sick from their health plans.

Health Net says that they are just catching fraud. The law allows...

Despite a history of regular disasters -- earthquakes, hurricanes, bridge collapses, and fires -- Americans seem unwilling to prepare for the inevitable. This may have something to do with our skepticism about government -- at least when it comes to things that can't be justified as fighting terrorism. But the...