Accepting people for who they are seems to me to be what Christmas ought to be about. As a nation, we still aren't doing that with gay men and women in the military services.
Earlier this week, I asked for your ideas on what gifts we should give to some of our favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures. You dusted of...
According to Eamon Javers at Politico, Barack Obama has explicitly referenced Jesus Christ more frequently as president than George W. Bush ever did. ...
There are many lessons to learn from the health care war that has raged over the past year. We'll get to some of them below. But here's the bottom li...
Why didn't they think of offering to pay state Medicaid costs in perpetuity for all the Republican Senators? The health care bill would have passed 1...
I would like your help to write the longest "Night Before Christmas" poem ever. Think we can write one as long as a three-gabillion page bill?
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land / We hoped Santa Obama would bring fortune in hand. / Small businesses hung stockings by the chimney with care, / In hopes that stimulus funding soon would be there.
Our decision to treat terrorists like U. S. citizens will probably have little or no effect on them, other than to make it harder to seize them, hold them, and render them harmless through incarceration.
From the Big House to the White House, Pebble Beach to Pennsylvania Avenue, articles such as Frank Rich's confirm the nefarious notion that successful minorities should still feel "lucky just to be there".
I'm positive that Obama thinks that he's doing his best to bring about as much change as he can within the limits of this system. But is he a true progressive or a corporatist sell out?
The biggest news coming out of Copenhagen, but not covered by the American media, is that Obama hasn't been able to convince other countries to act even though he is the most popular head of state.
A mass, collective pardon of nonviolent offenders would reunite hundreds of thousands of families, save billions of dollars in incarceration costs, and might foster a national spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Congress is apparently going to give al Qaeda and other jihadists who want to kill Americans at least two more years of their most potent recruitment ...
There's a lot of righteous - and rightful - outrage that President Obama is now blatantly lying about his campaign promise to give every American a ch...
Too many observers, in my view, are judging the Copenhagen Accord by the wrong yardsticks.
Copenhagen can be considered a failure for environmentalists and climate campaigners. We failed to convey was the urgency that is required to effectively tackle an enormous problem.
Where are the local ministers and parish priests whose congregations are filled with individuals with no health insurance or bare bones policies?
At a recent social gathering, I was approached by a gentleman who had heard I had written a book about the gun control issue. "I am a gun owner," he ...
We are left with a bill that neither side is incredibly happy about, but from experience, I know it means that it is a good piece of legislation.
Asif Ali Zardari became Pakistan's president thanks to political and financial support from the U.S. and Britain; in exchange, he's facilitated the U.S. war in Afghanistan. That deal is falling apart fast.
From the moment he was elected, Obama has governed not as a progressive liberal but as a corporatist liberal. Progressive liberals hoped Obama would be like FDR. Instead, he's been like Bill Clinton on steroids.
