Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012) Here is my last minute prediction on the first Obama-Romney debate: I think Mitt Romney is going to win it. This has nothing to do with the forensic skills of either Romney or Obama, and everything to do with the media....
Barack Obama Must Ask $2,000 Question
Sep 6, 2012 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: The Morning Call (September 6, 2012), PolicyMic (September 6, 2012) More than a month ago, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center revealed that Mitt Romney's proposed tax cuts for the affluent will require him to increase taxes on middle-class families by an...
Who Won the Debate Tonight: Romney is Winner for the Media, Big Loser is Moderator Jim Lehrer
Sep 3, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012) Editor's Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author's thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here. [To see who won the third and final presidential...
Barack Obama’s Legacy: Part Two – After the Supreme Court’s Health Care Reform Ruling
Jun 28, 2012 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Health Care Reform, History, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: PolicyMic (June 28, 2012) Two months ago, in my editorial detailing the positive legacy President Obama will leave behind at the end of his first term, I deliberately avoided mentioning his health care reform bill, given that it was at that time "on the...
Satire: Confessions of a Freedom-Hating, Tax-Loving, Marriage-Destroying Liberal
May 10, 2012 | Conservativism, Conspiracy Theories, Extremism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, President Obama, Salon.com, Satirical Essays
Published: PolicyMic (May 10, 2012) My fellow American liberals, I would like to make a modest proposal. For far too long, we have been accused of terrible things. In the last decade alone, our opponents have said that we're un-American, that we're Communists, that...
Barack Obama’s Legacy: Part One – Comparison to John Kennedy
Apr 30, 2012 | Democrats, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Foreign Policy, History, Political Parties, President Obama
Published: The Morning Call (April 30, 2012), PolicyMic (April 30, 2012), CNN (April 30, 2012) With one of Barack Obama's signature legislative achievements on the Supreme Court chopping block and his re-election bid against Mitt Romney shaping up into a close race,...
Health Care Reform and the Anti-Injunction Act
Mar 14, 2012 | Health Care Reform, President Obama, Supreme Court and Other Judicial Issues
Published: PolicyMic (March 14, 2012) As the Supreme Court prepares to start its hearings on President Barack Obama's health care reform legislation (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA), it makes sense that conservatives and libertarians...
Why Ron Paul Appeals to the Millennial Generation
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...
Why Elena Kagan Should Not Recuse Herself from Health Care Law Hearing
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...
On Obama’s Economic (Obamanomics) Policies
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...