As the Senate prepares to vote on health care reform, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina sent its enrollees a mass mailing on Wednesday asking them to oppose health care reform by sending a pre-paid postcard to Senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat and supporter.

The cover of the mailing asks:

Public...

In order to rethink fundamentally the debate surrounding health care reform, we need to first understand what exactly health insurance is and what it insures. With external objects, such as a home, a car, or a boat, we know exactly what a policy insures: a home, a car, a boat,...

The Huffington Post reported on September 29th that the support for health care reform is again on the rise after the down slide of August. The report is based upon the newly released poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation that shows that fifty-seven percent of Americans now believe that...

A controversy is brewing in the little town of Wilmington, NC. It involves an event to take the main stage on Saturday, October 3, from 11 to 2 during the very popular Wilmington Riverfest, which draws thousands from near and far. It is being called "I Love America Rally 2009."...

This morning during its Morning Edition, NPR played a refreshing interview Steve Inskeep conducted with the Secretary of Energy, Steve Chu. Chu is a non-politician in a political position, but no one doubts that he is a very logical choice to be in charge of energy policies in this...

I wrote an article in December of last year about the interview Steve Inskeep of NPR's All Things Considered conducted with Mike Duncan, the then chairman of GOP. In that article I observed the GOP was heralding Bobby Jindal and Ahn Cao as the saviors of the party because it...

Daphne Eviatar of The Washington Independent reported on August 19 of the rising likelihood of the GOP alienating the Latino vote bloc by embracing the nativist stance on Health Care. She reports that "protesters at town hall meetings are increasingly railing against lawmakers for seeking to provide health care...

I am sitting in a movie theater with my two children to watch Space Chimps, an animated children's movie about chimpanzees who travel through space, through a wormhole to an alien planet, and then back to the Earth safely. The human controllers on the ground sport all the telltale signs...

As I wrote in a previous blog, I am Korean-American. Although I have lived in this country for many, many years and consider myself "well-assimilated," some cultural lessons I have taken from my very Korean parents will never be forgotten.

One of these lessons is that I still do...

I come from a family of squatters. In fact, my family comes from a land of squatters. I don't mean anything figuratively by it, as in, I like to go into empty houses and occupy it illegally. I mean literally that I like to squat. I like to squat with...

The date of April 15th could not have been more fortuitous to those opposed to taxes in Wilmington, NC, to hold a "tea party." There had been another "tea party" a few days earlier on April 7th on the steps of the Federal Court House over the issue of annexation...

When I volunteered for Obama during the summer of 2008, I had a curious encounter with an undecided voter. I walked up his driveway, and I noticed a sticker from a local yoga studio on his car. It brought a smile to my face, a relief really, for I was...

Everyone agrees. Bobby Jindal had a tough act to follow. He had to rebut a popular American president, one of the most gifted orators since perhaps Lincoln himself. The president had just given an impassioned speech, had the Congress swooning and, gasp, its members hugging him. Now, since when do...

This morning, NPR's Steve Inskeep interviewed the chairman of the Republican party, Mike Duncan, who is trying to hold on to his chairmanship despite the massive GOP loss in November. The most interesting part of the interview wasn't anything Duncan said.

Rather, it was Duncan's long silence when asked...

Wilmington, N.C. -- My colleague's first words to me this morning were, "Boy, this was the best election experience ever thanks to early voting! It took me only 3 minutes to get in and out this morning at Parsley Elementary." I am wondering, can this be? Ernie continued, "I was...

Every election, it comes down to who and how many actually make it to the polls. It is a huge operation to get out the vote on the weekend before the election day. There is no doubt in everyone's mind that Obama's operation has been a marvel ever since the...

Wilmington, N.C. -- Supporters of Barack Obama took full advantage of Halloween to promote early voting in Wimington, North Carolina. About 120 supporters took to the streets wearing Barack Obama gear, masks, and othe creative costumes. The crowd was estimated at about 120, including many children who trick or treated...

Wilmington, N.C. -- Polls have shown Obama slightly ahead of McCain in North Carolina for the last few weeks. Can this be true? North Carolina has not voted for a Democrat since 1976 when Jimmy Carter won the state. But Jimmy Carter was a white candidate from Georgia, and, in...

The fact was not lost on many Obama supporters on his birthday. There was a juxtaposition of his head from two years ago and one on his birthday on August 4, 2008. The one from two years ago shows his hair still black while the one this year shows his...

WILMINGTON, N.C. --- Students here are reporting being turned away at the polls.

The problems mostly seem to concern the fact that on campus students often have seperate mailing and residential addresses. On UNCW's campus, for example, students reside at a dorm and receive mail at a university Post...