Ed Crego, George Muñoz and Frank Islam

Although they disagree on much, there is one thing on which President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, seem to agree. That is it is time to renew America and the American Dream.

President Obama made his view explicit on his Afghanistan visit when he...

It's time to invoke the Buffett Rule. That's Jimmy's, not Warren's. Let us explain why.

The Buffett Rule, as put forward by President Obama, was an attempt to raise the minimum tax paid by a person earning more than a million dollars a year to a minimum of...

Rush Limbaugh has apparently apologized for his intemperate remarks regarding Sandra Fluke. Or, has he?

On March 3, Mr. Limbaugh issued a formal apology to Ms. Fluke after companies such as Quicken Loans, Legal Zoom, and Citrix pulled their sponsorships and groups of citizens from across the country advocated...

Class warfare? Not really.

What we have had over the past several months -- as frequently happens during political debates and almost always during a national election period -- is the substitution of red-hot rhetoric and hot button phrases for a meaningful discussion on the American condition and what...

For several months now, we have been watching presidential candidates and representatives from both major parties vie to gain the nation's attention and voter support for their interpretation of the American condition. As the respective positions and points galvanized and balkanized at the beginning of this New Year, the situation...

In God we trust. So proclaimed the United States House in November when it overwhelmingly passed a resolution to reaffirm that statement as the official motto of the United States.

Congressman J. Randy Forbes, (R, VA), the resolution's sponsor, said the measure was needed because of a "disturbing trend"...

Our nation's Capitol is a misdirected place. That's true not only on a political but on an experiential level as well. Trying to drive anywhere in or around the city proves that the transportation grid is simply a reflection of the gridlock that dominates the debates or lack thereof in...

When the United States military invaded Iraq in 2003, many of that nation's citizens looked at and referred to them as "occupiers". We preferred to see and call ourselves "liberators."

Today a group in the United States that labels itself "occupiers" has taken up temporary residence on Wall Street and...

Steve Jobs died last week and along with him may have passed some of America's hopes, dreams and potential for future jobs. Bur, this need not be the case, if we can learn the key lessons that Mr. Jobs, this quintessential American, provided through his life, leadership and continuous and...

Howard Schultz, founder, Chairman and CEO of Starbucks, has recently called upon executives not to make any political donations until there is a "courageous, long-term bipartisan debt and financial security plan that addresses both entitlements and revenue." This request for abstinence from Mr. Schultz reminds us of a different Schulz....

On Friday, August 26, as Hurricane Irene began to move up the East Coast to give Washington, DC a physical lashing, Federal Reserve Bank Chair Ben Bernanke spoke out, from across the country in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to give our elected officials in the nation's capitol a tongue lashing.

When Barack Obama was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2009, hope was in the air and audacity was abounding. Today, 32 months later (and two-thirds of the way through the Obama presidency), Hope is just a city in Arkansas, and austerity pervades.

We are in the midst of...

The Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform ended its work not with a bang or a whimper, but, as Co-Chair Alan Simpson put it, by taking a "big banana and throwing it into the gorilla cage." Let's hope the gorilla doesn't slip on the peel and knock himself out before...

Much ado about nothing. In our opinion, that's what is occurring as the media engages in its traditional post mortem analysis on the elections -- who won, who lost, why and what it all means.

What it means is that for the third time in three successive national election contests...

The country is currently awash in controversy over two topics. One is the appropriateness of locating a mosque near ground zero in New York City. The other is the discussion about revising the 14th amendment to address the citizenship status of the children of "illegal immigrants" born in the United...

On July 22, after a long and grueling contest of wills and words, the Senate approved the extension of unemployment benefits. As happens too frequently on Capitol Hill, this was a case of time, energy, and talent substantially misspent.

While the good senators were debating the pros and cons...

Take back America! That's the battle cry of the Tea Party movement whose members want to accomplish this by taking the country back to its roots and the halcyon days of yesteryear. Their agenda centers primarily on limiting the role of government and elevating individual rights that were initially established...