A Connection Between Afghanistan: and the Health Care Bill?

Ed Hamilton, 01.08.2010

Though I still think he's the greatest politician since sliced bread, I've started to sour on President Obama a bit. Maybe it's this Afghanistan ...

Charles Krauthammer Continues to Fail

Barrett Brown, 01.08.2010

Author of Flock of Dodos, Director of Communications for Enlighten The Vote

One of the most delightful and potentially game-changing aspects of the information age is that it grants a vastly enhanced ability to discover past predictions that might otherwise have been forgotten.

(WATCH) One Month Before Election, Obama Opposed Tax He's Now Pushing

Lee Stranahan, 01.08.2010

Filmmaker, Writer, Photographer

This video seems to be striking a nerve. In the day since I made and released it, it's been featured by sites and people as diverse as FireDogLake, Re...

Tax the Rich to Fix the Economy

Bryan Young, 01.08.2010

Bryan Young is a filmmaker and writer.

We have a problem in our country and giving money to banks in the hopes that they'll give people more loans only exacerbates the problem. Why are we encouraging incurring more debt?

A Tale of Two Responses

Steve Benen, 01.08.2010

Contributing writer, Washington Monthly

To hear conservatives tell it, the White House's handling of the failed Christmas terrorist plot has been inadequate. President Obama, the Right has argued, waited too long to speak publicly about the incident, and hasn't taken the matter seriously enough. Let's compare the previous administration's response to a nearly identical terrorist plot -- Richard Reid's failed shoe-bomb attack -- the same chemical, the same target, the same intended consequence, in same month of the year, with the same twisted ideology.

The Chamber of Commerce and Climate Change

Joe Keefe, 01.08.2010

President and CEO, Pax World Funds

The Chamber of Commerce is dead wrong on climate change, and dead wrong on cap-and-trade legislation.

A Successful Year for Our First Sustainability President

Steven Cohen, 01.08.2010

Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

The Environmental Protection Agency recently decided to issue the most stringent air pollution regulations in American history. This step, along with ...

Message to Rahm Emanuel: On Guns and Terror, If Not Now, When?

Dennis A. Henigan, 01.08.2010

Brady Center Vice President and Author of "Lethal Logic"

A U.S. soldier, under investigation by the FBI for his communications with a radical Yemeni cleric tied to al-Qaida, uses a gun to kill thirteen and w...

How Toasted Is Rahm?

Michael Wolff, 01.08.2010

Author of Newser.com's Off the Grid column

A few months ago I started to hear that Nancy Pelosi was dining out on her enmity toward Rahm Emanuel, saying her goals for the year included, togethe...

Not By Maureen Dowd

John McQuaid, 01.08.2010

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on science, environment, government

Obama promised us the utopias of Philip K. Dick and Aldous Huxley and all we got was James Cameron: Osama avatars prancing through security in PETN-enhanced underpants.

Obama's Neglect of the Jobs Issue Will Result in Huge 2010 Incumbent Turnover

Stephen Viscusi, 01.08.2010

America's Workplace Guru

Tired of being unemployed, don't you agree it is time to teach every politician, regardless of party, what it is like?

Glock Around The Clock... Twitter, Guns and Gambling Tarnish US Image

Eric Ehrmann, 01.08.2010

Writes on sports and global issues from Brazil. He is a member of PEN.

With NBA commissioner David Stern suspending Gilbert Arenas, the media has forgotten that this party got started thanks to Twitter.

So Who's Getting Fired???

Kristen Breitweiser, 01.08.2010

9/11 widow and activist

I am a 9/11 widow who fought long and hard to learn lessons from 9/11 so that our nation would be safer from a terrorist attack. How is it possible that the same exact mistakes made 8 years ago have been repeated?

Mountaintop Removal Mayhem: Blair Mtn Scandal (Feds See Dead People), Coal Profits Soar, EPA Disses Scientists

Jeff Biggers, 01.08.2010

Author, forthcoming "Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland"

Who needs to go to the movie theatre to watch Avatar and the horrors of ruthless extraction companies when we have our own bizarre mountaintop removal...

Prescription for 2010: A New Democratic Narrative

Bob Burnett, 01.08.2010

Berkeley writer, retired Silicon Valley executive

Ten months before the 2010 mid-term elections, Democrats are gritting their teeth in anticipation of net losses in both the House and Senate. How can...

The Threat of Tone Deafness

David Sirota, 01.08.2010

Newspaper columnist, radio host (AM760), bestselling author

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is basing his potential gubernatorial run on his belief that "there should be a lot more people in government who come out of the business community." To say this is tone deaf is an understatement.

Lost in Translation

Jamal Dajani, 01.08.2010

Senior Director and Producer of Mosaic News, Link TV

The US security failure is not at airports, but rather with an overseas intelligence agency doing a shoddy job at gathering information. The president did not name the agency, but I will: it's the CIA.

Sudan's Unhappy Anniversary

John Prendergast, 01.08.2010

Co-Founder of the ENOUGH Project

Enough's Laura Heaton co-authored this post. This Saturday marks the fifth anniversary of a monumental peace agreement in Sudan, one that brought a c...

"A Leader In Style"

Jim Lichtman, 01.07.2010

This is President Barack Obama. Whether I'm facing the bitter cold of China's foreign policy or the bitter winds on Capitol Hill, I can do it in co...

Weird Science: Why Politicians and Pundits Cling to the "Cadillac Tax" Idea

Richard (RJ) Eskow, 01.08.2010

Consultant, Writer, Health Analyst

I believe that the President, Sen. Kerry, and other advocates of the "Cadillac tax" on health care plans are intelligent, ethical, dedicated people. So why do they support what amounts to wishful thinking based on dubious research?

Roy Sekoff On AIG-Fed Emails: This Has Got To Be The End Of Tim Geithner (VIDEO)

Huff TV, 01.07.2010

HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on The Ed Show Thursday to weigh in on news that Tim Geithner and the New York Fed actively worked to keep details...