It's not going to happen here in the United States - peace - not in this coming year, not in my lifetime. I have to face the fact that no matter how m...
Late last year, when Barack Obama trounced the McCain-Palin ticket, a phrase kept crossing my mind" "No More Mister White Guy." The signs and omen...
2009 was certainly not a year of triumphs for mankind nor human kindliness. The world economic crisis is neither diagnostically nor therapeutically on the way to a solution.
On December 9, world leaders debated global climate in Copenhagen and Obama was in ...
The past ten years have a structure, a form, a shape that could almost be mapped out in one of those Syd Field books for aspiring screenwriters.
In President Obama's much-vaunted 2009 speech in Cairo, he made a commitment to supporting reform in the Arab world. Though there was plenty in the s...
As soon as health care wraps up in Congress, Washington's number one public policy issue must become winning approval of a plan to end our dangerous and costly dependence on foreign oil.
No longer a solitary whistleblower, the lone individual can now link up to like minds around the globe, share information and develop strategies for change. Real change, after all, happens from the inside out.
Progressives can be as bad as teabaggers, with their chronic dissatisfaction, ideological disdain for compromise, and limited understanding of historical precedent.
Are Muslim only lines at airports next? The thought is offensive, disgusting, and blatantly unconstitutional. But it's hardly far-fetched. Three yea...
The United States owes it to the Iranian people to do what it can to help. We should not see assistance to Iranians in their struggle now as an optional act of benevolence, but as an ethical responsibility.
Maybe there won't be enough burial plots if they grant the wish of every soldier's mom who wants to be buried with her dead child. If that's true then we're in worse trouble than we think.
As we had our holiday dinner together, my kids asked me why billions can be spent on an expanding war, bailing out the auto industry and the banks, but when it comes to health care, people are afraid of a "government takeover."
Breaking News...Dateline Hawaii President Barack Obama emerged fully naked from an ocean swim to support the recommendation by his terrorism task for...
Each year on December 1st, the world recognizes the importance of AIDS with World AIDS Day and reminds us what we can do to prevent and treat this t...
Preside over the biggest terrorist attack in American history and it's an epic win for President Bush. Preside over a failed attack and it's an epic fail for President Obama.
After the passage of historic health care reform there will still remain very tough questions on the direction of our economy and the steps to take. But good will - charity - does exist.
An unusually bi-partisan coalition opposes the Senate's proposed health care bill for its requirement that middle-class Americans buy insurance or else face annual fines.
By Anthony Painter "It is immensely moving when a mature man -- no matter whether old or young in years -- is aware of a responsibility for the conse...
1. Spend more time with friends and family. 2. Spend less time with jerks. 3. Resolve the conflict between Resolutions #1 and Resolution #2. 4. Return...
After 2010, the Obama presidency, if history is any guide, will change substantially. It will become reactive, initiate few, if any, major pieces of legislation, and focus more on foreign policy.
