American Enterprise Institute

Putting Off Health Care

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

Delaying implementation only allows the relentlessly increasing unemployment rate to push up the relentlessly increasing rate of the uninsured.

Shall We Take This Opportunity To Eradicate the Middle Class?

Harry Moroz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

Despite the overblown criticism of the latest stimulus jobs numbers, job creation is lagging in the United States and the economy is clearly not working for the majority of American middle-class households.

Democrat Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals" on CNN. Was He Right? You Bet!

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics


Ronald B. Robinson

Being progressives and promoting a positive agenda of Socio-Spiritual Liberation and Joyful Justice doesn't mean being wimpy.

Greenspan: Bailouts Are Biggest Threat To U.S. Future

briefingroom.thehill.com | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business


What are biggest threats to America's economic future? According to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, government bailouts of "too big t...

Cheney and Torture

Jesse Larner | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics


Jesse Larner

Cheney and his ilk don't understand liberty, and they don't understand freedom, what it costs and what it's worth. They are small men and cowards, selling out the rule of law at the first whiff of danger.

McClatchy Newspapers: Cheney's Speech Contained Omissions, Misstatements

McClatchy Newspapers | Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 06.22.2009 | Home


Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions,...

Cheney Revealed As A Terminator During Latest Speech

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy


Matthew Filipowicz

As you will see, during Cheney's speech, a malfunction of some sort caused a small explosion which caused the Cheney-Borg's flesh-like covering to melt, thus revealing the endoskeleton hidden beneath.

Dispatches from the Dark Side

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics


Allison Kilkenny

In Cheneyland, the terrorists attack us because of the "values we profess." Cheney's ideology is -- as always -- extremely immature, cruel, and myopic.

The Beast Runs Free

Harry Moroz | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business


Harry Moroz

True change will not come from altering how we regulate the financial sector -- at least not in statements of the sort Secretary Geithner issued this week.

What European Fiscal Austerity Is Doing To The U.S.

Harry Moroz | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business


Harry Moroz

As the G-20 meeting of the world's 20 biggest economies approaches, the right is cultivating a strategic relationship with the "reformed socialists" o...

Capital Strike?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

The day will come when Obama will have no choice but to remind the giant corporations through tough government action that the U.S. is not just another one of their wholly owned subsidiaries.

Mukasey: Guantanamo Detainees Raise Legal "Questions" That Congress Should Answer

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.29.2008 | Home


WASHINGTON — Congress, not judges, should decide how to give Guantanamo Bay detainees their day in court, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said ...

Don't Worry, Says the American Enterprise Institute -- Be Happy!

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics


Andrea Batista Schlesinger

I'm not surprised that the new head of the American Enterprise Institute is an expert on happiness. They must need a dose. It is the home, after all,...

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home


Peter Dreier

The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.

Ex-Bush Speechwriter Frum "Terrified" By Current GOP Landscape

NY Times | DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


As a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former speechwriter for President Bush, you're surprisingly critical of him in your new ...