Feb 28, 2012 | Abortion, Civil Liberties, Conservativism, Gender and Sexism, Other Media, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (February 28, 2012), As Quoted in an Obama Presidential Campaign Commercial (April 27, 2012 at the 1:07 mark) A new bill proposed by Pennsylvania Representative Kathy Rapp would require any woman seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound....
Feb 24, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State, Millennials, President Obama, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (February 24, 2012), PolicyMic (February 24, 2012) As Ron Paul's inability to expand his base within the Republican Party makes his bid for the GOP presidential nomination seem increasingly futile, media outlets are discussing whether...
Feb 1, 2012 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama
Published: The Morning Call (February 1, 2012) As Obama's health care law reaches the Supreme Court, the clamor from conservatives and their libertarian sympathizers becomes shriller every day. From Dick Morris and Hans von Spakovsky to WorldNetDaily and The...
Dec 14, 2011 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama
Published: The Morning Call (December 14, 2011) The Labor Department recently reported that 140,000 jobs were created in November, causing unemployment to fall to 8.6 percent, the lowest it has been in 21/2 years. When you add that to the nearly 3 million jobs that...
Nov 21, 2011 | Centrism, Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (November 21, 2011) If I were a Republican, I would be very concerned right now about the future of my party. Allow me to explain. As of the moment, President Barack Obama is an extremely vulnerable incumbent. Unemployment remains...
Oct 14, 2011 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama
Published: The Newark Star-Ledger (October 14, 2011) The pundits are claiming that Occupy Wall Street lacks a coherent agenda. I have one for them that can be summed up in two words: Rebuild America. Although Occupy Wall Street’s anger has been targeted at the...
Oct 2, 2011 | Civil Liberties, Conservativism, Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Media Issues, Pennsylvania, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Religion and Religious Issues, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (October 2, 2011) In a recent interview with Politico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum issued a scathing denunciation of Google. "If you're a responsible business," he remarked, "you don't let things like that happen in your...
Aug 15, 2011 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (August 15, 2011) When reviewing "Atlas Shrugged," the magnum opus of libertarian paladin Ayn Rand, famed anti-communist Whittaker Chambers made this observation about her philosophy: "Out of a lifetime of reading, I can recall no other...
Jul 28, 2011 | Conservativism, Economic Policy, Extremism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: The Express Times (July 28, 2011) Even though I am hardly a fan of the disproportionate influence of big businesses in our government, the reality is that the vast majority of them don’t want a default any more than centrists, leftists and moderate...