Unemployed people wait in line at an unemployment office in Miami.
Many large corporations have been promised or are jockeying for billions of government bailout dollars as the ecomonic meltdown continues.
President George W. Bush, a self-described compassionate conservative, walked his talk…
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The nation is just past a historic and divisive election presidential campaign yet the predictable partisan chatter has fully blossomed.
The beltway jockeying between the parties quickly took root - more than two months before Inauguration Day. So who cares and what’s new? Birds still…
On the campaign trail and during their convention, Republicans have touted private enterprise as the solution to America’s health care crisis — despite evidence that within the government’s Medicare program, private enterprise is causing more problems than it’s solving.
Exhibit A…
Armies plan carefully and train to fight with precision and discipline. But once the shooting starts, and the fog of war rolls in, all bets are off.
That’s important to bear in mind as President George W. Bush ponders his next…
One of the darkest eras in the history of the American system of jurisprudence finally has resulted in something that looks like justice.
A military tribunal last week acquitted Salim Hamdan, who was a driver for Osama Bin Laden, of conspiracy to…
Congress did the right thing last week by overriding a presidential veto of some modest Medicare reforms. But as welcome as it was, the quick and decisive response highlights a long-standing inequity in federal spending.
The measure will prevent a 10…
In Spain, Pamplona has its annual running of the bulls. Sweetwater, Tex., has its Rattlesnake Roundup. And Washington has the annual farce of the physicians’ Medicare fee cuts.
Not familiar with that last one? It plays out when an increase in spending…
To a considerable degree, the federal Farm Bill of 2007 — which, five months into 2008 has yet to be passed by Congress — is a welfare program for millionaires. President George W. Bush calls it wasteful and promises to…
