How did women’s reproductive rights become the bargaining chip for health care reform in this country? Federal funding for clinics is essential to the future of women’s reproductive rights and health. The Stupak Amendment slams women back to a time of unsafe abortions. What is the President thinking? Didn’t we...

The machinations of today’s US politics are enough to bring even the most hopeful to their knees in despair. Health care reform appears to have become the symbol for unholy political warfare between liberals aka Democrats, and the conservatives aka Republicans. The residual animosity...

Amidst the glitterati and the bustle of the Clinton Global Initiative (“CGI”) are the “quiet voices” of individuals and NGO’s trying to affect change on this planet. This year one remarkable individual comes to mind. It was his maiden voyage into the unchartered waters. His name is Richie...

Something is really going on over the last few days. You can smell it in the air like springtime. There is hope. The two Presidents are dueling for prime time television spots, and romancing the American public. A-ha, these two are showing the loggerheads in the media how it should...

The President in regards to health care insurance reform said, “The time for bickering is over. The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action."

Indeed it is time to stand up and take action for health care insurance reform in this country. Former President...

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve told the world that “the worst recession since the 1930’s is probably over,” and blamed the continued problems on the rise of unemployment. Certainly he is right about the escalation of those...

It’s fascinating to see the viral cry for health care reform all over Facebook today.

No one should die because he or she cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because he or she gets sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for...

August Madness strikes in the summer of health care discontent. Economics are running wild despite the "cash for clunkers" program. If they weren't so small, maybe folks could live in their new government subsidized cars. But a Prius just doesn't work for a family of five during the school...

Can't we all take a moment and rejoice in the return of these two young women without throwing rotten tomatoes at our own Madam Secretary of State? It's bad enough that former UN Ambassador, John Bolton is doing his Nikita Khrushchev imitation banging his shoe on the desk...

The two American journalists have been pardoned after an unprecedented meeting between former President Bill Clinton and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

From what we can see of these quiet negotiations, this was diplomacy at its best, orchestrated by President Obama and the "Ambassador to...

The Obama "Recovery Act" is code for a Marshall Plan for the United States. The irony is that the US is funding its own country's recovery plan for a war fought not on home soil, but rather in Iraq and now Afghanistan. And just like the Marshall Plan, also...

With the passing of Walter Cronkite, an era has ended in American journalism. Cronkite was the real deal, and we will miss everything that he represented. Sadly, today's media mavens and pundits should take a page out of his book. Gone are the days of tough reporting and nightly news....

It is not surprising that the former Vice President Dick Cheney withheld information on covert operations from the Congress, and even members of the sacred Senate Intelligence Committee. Why are the media and so many members of Congress surprised? It was totally within the playbook for the...

Hate is out of control in the post Bush years. First we have Mr. Looney Tunes shooting and assassinating abortion doctor, George Tiller two weeks ago and continuing to sound his message of hate over the television airwaves. Now, we get notice of a shooting at the Holocaust Museum...

The murder of Dr. George Tiller is horrific. It is an act of domestic terrorism at its worst. Gunned down at his peaceful place of worship in Wichita, Kansas, Dr. Tiller was targeted as he served as an usher in church and his wife sang in the choir....

No not really! Obama's proposed credit card crack down does not go far enough. It certainly is a first step for a beautiful Saturday morning in May, but his team has got to get much tougher on the financial institutions.

The reality is that we are in the...

Overall, Senator Chris Dodd is one of the good guys immersed in the brutal machinations of the AIG debacle. He did not do this by himself. Can't you smell a good old "tar and feather" campaign when you smell one? The Republicans have targeted him for the fight for his...

The Clean Tech revolution is purported to be the next big wave for Silicon Valley's best and brightest, and their venture capitalists. Whoops, no one told those venture folks that their investments in renewable energies would not resemble anything that they had done in the past.

It is a...

As we go into the State of the Union address this evening, it is time to give Obama a break. Democracy is messy. The president is allowing the work to unfold and the Republicans, the Blue Dog Democrats and even some of the Progressives don't like it one bit.

David Axelrod got it right this morning on Meet the Press. It is not the chatter of the Beltway and incessant drama making of the television media that matters! It is what everyday Americans are talking about around the kitchen table that matters. Media does not matter! It is...