Integrating the Best Ideas from Left and Right
As a psychotherapist I've done my share of counseling squabbling couples and have learned to looking for common ground. Lately I've begun to apply this method to politics, with some fascinating results.
As a psychotherapist I've done my share of counseling squabbling couples and have learned to looking for common ground. Lately I've begun to apply this method to politics, with some fascinating results.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Stylistically, the speech was reminiscent of Obama on the campaign trail. But the bar for him is so high that this was only remarkable because it has been so absent of late from Obama.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
The United States of America is one of the only places on earth where all sense of a public space, let alone public duty, is off the table as a matter of faith. Privacy, ownership and profit are what we are about.
Drew Westen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
The American people did not vote for "bipartisan" solutions that split the difference between the failed ideology of the last eight years and the change the president and the super-majorities they elected in both houses of Congress promised.
Beth Borzone | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
Lots of people are disappointed with some of Obama's recent decisions but they still love him because he is a person of conviction working within a flawed system.
Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Everyone seems to have concluded that capitalist mode of development based on full exploitation of resources -- man made or natural -- is the best route to be followed in the near term.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
This is the nub of it for me with the Lefties: they do not truly understand who they are, nor what they are motivated by. The slightest bump in the road leads to anarchy or dissent.
Chris Weigant | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
We have to do something about our current situation. We're spending more and more on defense and purchasing less and less security for it.
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media
I would like to stop our jail society, save our dysfunctional schools, rein in the Pentagon and turn the "war on terror" into a police action. Am I on the "left"?
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
Obama is going to do something to absolutely enrage leftists, progressives, and the few remaining Americans who actually call themselves liberals; and, furthermore, he's going to do it within his first 100 days in office.
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
The Obama campaign did not leak, and they did not squabble amongst themselves in public -- right there, two astounding feats that no other candidate in the race could manage.
Linda Buzzell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics