The Great Debate #1

The “go-for-the-jugular” Mitt Romney we all came to know as he annihilated his primary opponents just came back on stage. And the man whose supporters refer to as one of the greatest orators the American Presidency has ever known was left fledgling without his teleprompter. But don’t take my word for it- let Bill Maher…

Are You Better Off?

“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”  -President Barack Obama, NBC, February 2009. I’m going to make this very simple. As of December 2008 (That is, the last month of the Bush Presidency) -Unemployment: 7.1 %  -Workforce Participation Rate: 65.8%  -Number of Individuals Below the…

2016: Understanding the Enigma

Last night, my family and I went to see Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016,” a movie that I believe portrays better than anything else has the enigma that is Barack Obama. As the author of “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” aptly notes, no one definition that has been thrown around has succeeded in explaining the oddly different approach that…

Unprecendented Ignorance: Barack Obama, the Supreme Court, and the Affordable Health Care Act

“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress. I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench is judicial activism or a…