Friday Talking Points -- Excerpting Obama's Press Conference
An important debate flared this week -- one in which sides were chosen, positions staked out, and invective hurled. I will let that sentence stand in...
An important debate flared this week -- one in which sides were chosen, positions staked out, and invective hurled. I will let that sentence stand in...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Much of the frenzied activity took place this week behind closed doors (and most decidedly not on C-SPAN), as health care reform entered its final negotiating phase.
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
"I am now the junior senator from the state of Illinois. . . . Friends, we're going to have to have some powerful prayer. . . . They can't deny what t...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
The history of profanity in American political discourse is an untold story out there just waiting for someone to research and write about -- although...
Chris Weigant | Posted 08.31.2011