President Obama may simply be another President Carter if he really pushed for the middle-class and working poor. He may be a one term president without much support from the middle. The push seems to be toward reelection. The administration has long pushed for political power. After all, the arena...

White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer told the New York Times, "As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in they eyes." After President Obama's press conference I wrote...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." --Lao-tsu

The graphic novel, Forget Sorrow, by Belle Yang masterfully depicts the story of her father's family in China. After preliminary scenes, ZuWu, Yang's father who's called "Baba," begins this ancestral tale in earnest. ZuWu's journey...

Warren Buffett has never been out so much on television as he has been in the last two years. Usually, we see him once a year during his annual quirky shareholders' meeting in Omaha. The interesting thing is that Berkshire has never been in such a dubious position as it...

Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being a radical because when he transferred to Columbia he went back to using the name that his parents had given him at birth.

BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says that the markets are doing incredibly well. Isn't it strange that this is the case, when many millions of American and small businesses are doing so incredibly bad? Small businesses can't get loans to stay afloat and individuals can't get them to start a business....

Goldman Sachs executives are sounding more and more like televangelists who say things like "We are doing the work of the ministry. 'Give and it shall be given unto you.' By giving to this telecast you will receive a blessing in due season."

Isn't it funny that giving to...

Yesterday, I was thoroughly amused that right in the middle of a conversation on Afghanistan, Wolf Blitzer broke away for "breaking news." Do you know what the news was? Well, Rush Limbaugh had been denied the opportunity to own an NFL team after he had long berated NFL players. There...

President Obama, along with President Nicholas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of England, announced that Iran has a secret nuclear facility in Qom, that "happens" to be near a historic holy site by the way, and has been secretly developing nuclear capacities, perhaps for destruction and not...

With the launch of Impact here on the Huffington Post which is dedicated to giving back, I immediately thought of my friend Kathleen Colson, the executive director of The BOMA Fund, an organization that supports the majestic people of rural northern Kenya. The BOMA Fund works to alleviate...

For all of my friends and foes out there who believe that the essence of Tea Parties is legitimate please take a listen to this hypocritical leader, Mark Williams, who tried to mask his racist ideology by saying that the Tea Parties are all about Americans standing up for their...

When I saw the perfect image of Congressman Joe Wilson perfectly centered flanked by three congressmen in suits and ties on the top, one on each side and three on the bottom in full-bodied seated positions, with his hand accusatorily pointed and mouth perfectly formed not on the phonetic (i)...

I wept out of sympathy and anger reading Arianna Huffington's post, The Story that Made Me Tear Up My Prepared Speech at a Big Education Conference. The new speech dealt with homeless children while Wall Street banks that are "too big to fail" got trillions and do nothing to...

Bob Stone has written a great post, What's with all the guns??, regarding ethics and those who are carrying semi-automatic guns at presidential events. On Bob's blog I asked a simple question that I would like to also ask here: If there was a group of law-abiding black men...

While the work that PETA does is commendable in many aspects, I often think that they go too far, often infringing upon the rights of others. I have written of this on my blog before. Listening to a PETA spokesperson on a news show say that Michael Vick should...

The Washington Post has done something that comes as close to undermining our democracy as anything. It sought to sell tickets to lobbyists for fees up to $250,000 that would provide access and a cozy atmosphere at the home of publisher, Katharine Weymouth to "'those powerful few'" -- Obama administration...

While I sometimes appreciate New York Times columnist David Brooks' opinions, I think he misses some very important points in a recent New York Times article, In Praise of Dullness." Based on a study, "Which C.E.O. Characterisitcs and Abilities Matter?", by Steven Kaplan, Mark Klebanov and Morten Sorensen, Brooks...

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, partners in Berkshire Hathaway, have finally come around to what Nassim Nicholas Taleb has been saying for years now. VAR models are dangerous, though they are taught widely in business schools and used on Wall Street. Mr. Munger even now talks about the...

It is absolutely ludicrous, not to mention utterly hypocritical, that President Obama is being berated by the Right for shaking hands and smiling with Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas in which both leaders were invited to participate. Should a recount of the many years of handshakes, kisses,...

The United States of America is not a Judeo-Christian nation. Yet, President Obama is getting some heat for this statement he made in Turkey:

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound...