My third open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration

Dear Mr. Romney,

Now, as it was in 1924, many Americans are against immigration, as they feel that immigrants take away from them jobs that they could have, at better pay than immigrants, if immigrants were stopped at the...

My second open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration

Dear Mr. Romney,

Being so vocal against illegal immigration, did you do your homework to find out how we ended up having this mess to begin with? Can you disclose your reasoning process?

Before the Immigration Act of...

An open letter to Mr. Mitt Romney on immigration

Dear Mr. Romney,

You stated many times that illegal immigrants should return to their countries of origin and get back in line. Why do we need a line to begin with? I grew up in Poland, then a socialistic country...

Several prominent Republicans decided to advocate for changing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, so that children born in the United States by illegal immigrants would not receive American citizenship. This initiative is quite controversial, and the Wall Street Journal editors decided to join the debate. They put it on...

In her column, "The Big Alienation", published by the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan is trying to convince us that the nation is alienated from its government. As a pivotal argument, Ms. Noonan brings the uncontrolled mess on our nearly 2000 miles long border with Mexico. Most Americans...

Can we reform immigration just by calling things as they are?

Heralding the upcoming legislation battle about immigration reform, in her column in The Washington Post, Tamar Jacoby gives us an inside look into the process.

Opting for "comprehensive immigration reform", Ms. Jacoby carefully avoids defining what it...

In the final push for passing his concept of health care reform, President Barack Obama concluded that there is no reason for debating health care reform any further due to "honest and substantial differences between the parties." Why we should not discuss fundamental disagreements; especially, when a major reform hinges...

Dear Mr. President,

In the State of the Union Address, referring to the health care reform proposal, you said:

"But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company...

In an emotional outburst, Bill O'Reilly condemned Dick Wolf and NBC for a recent Law and Order episode portraying a mentally disturbed person who turned his anger to killing the children of illegal immigrants, so called "anchor babies", in the jargon of anti-immigration fanatics. In particular,...

Over the past few months, I have tried to make sense out of our health care crisis. To follow my thought process, please check my previous six postings at the Huffington Post.

I arrived at the conclusion that we need a system built on the concept of

The House health care overhaul bill passed not because Democrats prepared a good proposal but because Republicans showed an amazing inability to present a viable alternative.

In particular, young and healthy people tend to not buy health insurance. However, without their contributions, any health insurance system cannot work. Democrats...

Among opponents of the health reform proposal, the public option draws most of their criticism. Pundits speculate whether Obama will drop it or not. All the energy put in debating the public option is futile. It misses the problem.

The problem is that we have 47 million uninsured. For humanitarian...

Fans of the TV serial House, will notice that every time Dr. House diagnoses a problem he scrawls on a white board. In scientific terms, he creates a decision table.

When approaching any decision, we try to estimate the chances of reaching certain intended outcomes. Then we weigh...

In the report that the President received from his Council of Economic Advisers, beginning on page 13 and following, we can read:

At a fundamental level, the inefficiencies stem from the fact that health care is very different from conventional goods and services. The markets for health insurance and...

One week after posting my open letter asking for a concept in the health care reform bill, I received an email from President Barack Obama.

Several hours before my letter showed up on Huffington Post, I forwarded it to the White House, using the "contact us" form on...

An open letter to President Obama regarding health care reform

Dear Mr. President,

I agree with your assertion that the health care crisis is an economic issue. We have the best doctors, the best hospitals, and the best drugs; however, they are out of reach for...

This is my question for Thomas F. Roeser, in response to his critique of the political inexperience of Adam Andrzejewski, a candidate for governor who has not worked even one day in Springfield.

I have to disclose that I am biased in my views of Adam Andrzejewski. I...

In his first interview after leaving office, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that Obama's policies "raise the risk" of a U.S. terror attack. His argument goes back to an old dilemma: should terrorism be considered a military problem, as the Bush administration treated it, or should it be...

A few weeks ago, Fareed Zakaria questioned our mostly military response to radical Islam. Readers, both at the Huffington Post and at Newsweek, posted hundreds of comments passionately opposing or supporting Mr. Zakaria's thesis. His text deserves more than that. It brings new ideas into the pivotal issue of...

For the last several years, conservatives have been dominating the political arena. Eventually, they ran out of appealing ideas, and the Democrats capitalized on this opportunity. However, the new Democratic leadership has to deal with the same problems that they were unable to address when they were in the minority....