Army Specialist James C. Young, 25, of Rochester, Illinois, died November 3, 2010, in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. How do you honor our nation's fallen when so few of us know or care about the wars we are fighting? How do you honor our nation's fallen while still opposing the...
Posted July 10, 2009 | 18:55:00 (EST)
President Obama's health care initiative isn't dead yet. It's not even on life support. It is, however, in grave danger as long as either the approval or rejection of legislation in Congress rests in the domain of political ideologues and their media lapdogs.
Americans want meaningful changes in the...
Posted December 16, 2008 | 14:20:34 (EST)
There is a tendency to view corporate financial scandals through the lenses of economic or political times and think that the misdeeds of the perpetrators are part of some current pandemic.
Most often, they are exactly what they seem to be: greed driven theft made possible by greed driven victims....
Posted December 3, 2008 | 05:38:36 (EST)
In the next few weeks Congress will approve a bridge loan package for the automobile industry totaling perhaps $25 billion. I presume it will be done before President Bush leaves office so that President-elect Obama will not have that particular stain on his hands. History will conveniently ignore the political...
255 Comments | Posted March 28, 2008 | 23:06:36 (EST)
"The anger is real. It is powerful, and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races." - Barack Obama
In an effort to throw Barrack Obama's thoughtful statement onto the scrap...

Posted November 11, 2010 | 09:02:05 (EST)