Every time I tune-in to the "debate" on health care, it amazes me how utterly asleep Congress and the media are with respect to this issue.

They, are, clueless.

Supposedly, the health care debate is between one group of people who make fortunes via the insanely profitable insurance...

Today, James von Brunn became the latest domestic terrorist to express his political views with an act of murder, in this case an attempted mass murder. National Holocaust Museum security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, by contrast, joined an inspiring list of American heroes who have stopped a terrorists bullet with...

As a Jewish American, I am not embarrassed to admit the part of President Obama's Cairo speech that jumped out at me was his strategic and symbolic reference to the "Holocaust."

OK, I am a little embarrassed.

The fact is, I find it strange to even admit that...

The violent killing of yet another American doctor at the hands of yet another right-wing political activist forces us to ask a crucial question: Why does the right-wing anti-abortion movement in America repeatedly give rise to people who see murder as a legitimate form of protest?

The answer does...

Anybody keeping score of which party controls the first few innings of the confirmation debate should make note of how many times "baseball" gets repeated in the political chatter over the next 48 hours.

When a new President mentions baseball twice in the first few minutes of his first Supreme...

Lately, the only thing worse than Dick Cheney's bald-faced lie that the Bush administration policies "kept us safe" is the gaggle of mainstream journalists mindlessly repeating it.

My question for journalists working for CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NPR and the like is very simple: Exactly what kind of...

Politicizing the Holocaust, equating the Obama administration with totalitarian communism, telling Jewish voters that the destruction of Israel by a Nazi-like threat is 'imminent'--such were the talking points in Newt Gingrich's speech to the American Israel Political Action Committee.  And that was just the first few minutes.

Without exaggeration, it is...

On the 101st day of his Presidency, Barack Obama finally slapped the hedge funds across the face like they deserved. 

In his statement about the Chrysler bankruptcy and subsequent restructuring into a "Chrysler-Fiat Alliance," President Obama made it perfectly clear that not all the stakeholders at the table stepped...

As we pass the 100 day milestone of Barack Obama's first term, one question keeps running through my mind even as I sift through all the polls showing soaring approval ratings:  When each of us awoke this morning, did we feel better about that nagging fear for our family's financial...

Whenever Dick Cheney grants one of his throaty interviews to FOX News, my mind jumps instantly to Frank Capra's iconic film "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946).  While some vice presidents fade into obscurity and others become presidents, Cheney has chosen to revive Lionel Barrymore's legendary performance as Old...

If the rash of 'Tea Party' protests planned for Tax Day 2009 is any indication, the Right Wing in American politics may finally abandon all pretense at what Barry Goldwater once called the "conscience of a conservative."  Instead of that lofty, albeit tattered ambition, the Right Wing of 2009 is...

As the economic crisis reaches the end of the early rounds, all eyes turn to Detroit--knocked to its knees by the credit crunch last November.  The news of the day: if GM wants more help getting back on its feet from Washington, there must be changes at the top.  Thus,...

For anyone listening to Edward Liddy's testimony, yesterday, the key statement of the hearings came at about 2:50pm. "It appears," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), "that AIG has become a conduit for counter-party transfers of taxpayer money."  Amidst all the anger over the $165 million in retention bonuses gifted to...

Concentrations of homeless people are nothing new in America, but recent BBC and Los Angeles Times reports depict a rising trend of shanty slums, such as a "city" of newly homeless people living in tents near the Ontario airport in Los Angeles.

If you recall your Steinbeck, the...

FOX News personality, Glenn Beck, has been using his airtime to broadcast a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Obama administration setting up 'concentration camps,' as part of a secret plot to establish totalitarian rule. Curiously, Beck's criticism of President Obama's economic policies seems to have been ripped directly from the...

When Warren Buffet told CNBC that the economy had "fallen off a cliff," everybody in the world understood exactly what he meant: our problems our really big, we dropped into them really fast, and we are in them really, really deep.  Whether are not all three of those statements are...

Everywhere I look, these days, Republicans are revolting.   Here are a few snapshots of what prominent Republicans are doing:

• Ann Coulter:  In weekly column told a racist joke about Bobby Jindal, called the Speaker of the House "mentally retarded," call public schools a "union incinerator" that eat children
• Michele Bachmann...

A fundamental shift in how Americans understand the word investment since Barack Obama became President was the key factor underlying the political theater of last night.

If there was any doubt how much President Obama has taken hold of that word, redefined it, and re-injected it back into every kitchen table...

A funny thing happened as I was watching President Obama's press conference with Prime Minister Harper in Ottawa: I did not cringe with embarrassment.

It may seem like an odd admission at first. After all, everybody knows by now that Obama is comfortable on the public stage--at ease with teleprompter...

When I was growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, my family only bought American cars.  We were not particularly patriotic.  We never had a flag pole in our yard.  But we only had American cars in our garage.   I wonder, as GM executives arrive again on Capitol Hill,...