“Shots fired at the President.”

     It was about 2:30 in the afternoon on March 30, 1981 and Reagan was in the back of the presidential limousine rushing from a chaotic scene outside the Washington Hilton hotel. Within half an hour of the shooting doctors discovere… Read full post »

    This past week bore witness to some significantly outrageous claims by two very public and private figures. From a burgeoning battle between a legendary journalist and the White House to an outright dismissal of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by an Italian-American Supreme Court Ju… Read full post »

    A not entirely new development in the sequester blame game reemerged this weekend in the form of Bob Woodward putting a damper on the Democrats' Speaker Boehner sequestration powerpoint, trump card. This not wholly unexpected wrinkle shifts the sequester's inception back on the Wh… Read full post »

    Yesterday morning, reluctantly waking to the rude static of the clock radio I reach for the snooze but decided against ten more minutes of sleep. Instead I readjust the dial trying to find the local NPR station’s elusive, ever-shifting frequency. Squeezed in between the… Read full post »

    Both times in fairly recent years federal minimum wage was increased with the cooperation of Republican leadership. In 1996, the Republican-controlled House under Newt Gingrich, the minimum wage was raised from $4.25 to $5.15 over a 2 year period. The next wage increase took place… Read full post »

     The rumor mill received an injection of new fuel after the release of Department of Justice memo outlining the Obama Administration’s legal justifications for drone attacks on American citizens. This led to worries about their use over U.S. soil and renewing big brothe… Read full post »

    Taxes are always a political hot potato but over the last few years they have been the searing topic of choice as the Bush Tax Cuts’ expiration was debated by many a political pundit, each and every one of them apparent “experts”. Screams and wails about how much… Read full post »

    Given the numerous calls for the gun control legislation after the multitude of mass shootings this past year alone and the subsequent debates across the country taking shape now, it goes without saying many a gun control proponent has found themselves in an elongated back and fort… Read full post »

In 2010, the Republicans’ leader in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, stated publicly that the party’s number one priority would be to deny President Obama a second term. This decision was made during a quiet, behind closed doors meeting of GOP luminaries both past and present on inaugura… Read full post »

Once again the nation faces yet another mass shooting incident, this time leaving 20 elementary school children dead in small town Connecticut. This tragic even marks the 18^th mass shooting this year alone resulting in the deaths of 99 people and the injury of 92 others. This, of course, only account… Read full post »

    Younger voters may pass on this years presidential elections. “It’s almost like if someone were voting in this election, it’d be like the lesser of two evils.” was the sentiment given by one Bowling Green University student in the swing state of Ohio. A… Read full post »

     The 2^nd presidential debate last night was nothing if not exciting and tension filled. The Obama we knew from 2008 was back with fervor while Romney fought back hard to maintain his momentum and success from the first debate. There were several moments of clear disagreement o… Read full post »

    Given the President’s disappointing performance during the first presidential debate and Mitt Romney’s approval bounce, it is quite clear that Obama needs to regain his focus. He needs to locate the master debater we witnessed in the 2008 campaign. But what is also clea… Read full post »

In an interesting twist, after a poor showing by the President, a Reuters/IPSOS poll taken the day after the 1st 2012 Presidential debates between Romney and Obama shows a couple intriguing results.

Obama actually received a bump among independents while Romney’s support remained flat.… Read full post »

A fellow blogger reminded me recently that this post from earlier this year is as relevant now as it was when first posted. As the election year enters full swing into debate season and as many of us engage others of differing viewpoints in in-depth political discussion,  I f… Read full post »

   A few events over the intervening week held sway enough to make me ponder aloud, “Does John Boehner truly understand American governance?”; “Are the embassy attacks about US policy?” and “Does President Obama flagrantly advocate abortion?”

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It’s been said before, many times in fact, but Senator Chuck Grassley’s recent reassertion that, “It [the economy] has gotten worse under Obama” continues to be a head scratcher for those with memories that span beyond the latest cable news cycle. The repetitious Republican ta… Read full post »

      In light of the growing number of Republican governors’ refusals to implement provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the most prominent of which being Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas, it becomes prudent to contemplate the trends of access to car… Read full post »

      In a truly unexpected 5-4 decision with Chief Justice Roberts leading the way the Supreme Court ruled President Obama's Affordable Care Act, and its hotly contested individual mandate, was indeed constitutional. While the last 2 years were filled with court ch… Read full post »

     As the eve of the Affordable Care Act's fate fast approaches, both sides of the partisan divide eagerly wait upon baited breath to pounce on whichever decision is laid down. Republicans have vowed to settle for nothing short of complete elimination since the law's inception.… Read full post »

     Mitt Romney criticized the President's “Dream Act” executive order saying playing politics with the issue hurts the chances of long-term solutions. His assessment, however, serves only to highlight a twofold problem for the presumptive GOP candidate. The comment… Read full post »