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Medical Innovation and Safety: A Delicate Balance

As we approach the November 2012 elections, there is an increasing amount of noise from politicians, pundits and talking heads on both sides of the aisle about major health care issues.  Controversial and polarizing topics such as reforming Medicare and…

C’mon America, we’re bigger than our partisan divide — what Olympia Snowe’s departure tells us

Tuesday’s retirement announcement by Olympia Snowe – who said that she was quitting because she was frustrated “that an atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies has become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions” –…

Key Senators Say Drones Should Document Assad Regime Attacks on Civilians

As diplomats attend a critical meeting in Tunisia to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down in the wake of attacks by his regime forces on his own people, a key group of U.S. senators suggested Friday that unmanned…

The 2012 presidential race is slipping away from Republicans

AP Feb. 14, 2012: President Obama speaks about extending the payroll tax cut at the White House. The Republican Party remains in a state of chaos — facing the increasingly realistic possibility of the first “brokered” convention in more than…

No easy solution for Syria

The violence is getting worse in Syria: At least 5,000 people dead already including hundreds of children and medical supplies are running out. There’s Thomas Friedman’s wonderful Arab Spring of Democracy for you. All we have to do to end…

Will Tuesday bring Santorum’s breakthrough moment in the 2012 presidential race?

FNC Jan. 3: Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum With Mitt Romney’s recent victory in Nevada, and Newt Gingrich’s disappointing second place finish, it is time to consider other alternatives. ; And Tuesda, with little fanfare or intention, Rick Santorum is…

Why Perry’s Campaign Is Not Quite Dead Yet

In recent weeks I have been ridiculed, derided, mocked and I believe even spit upon — though I was very near Wall Street at the time and it might have been rain-drops — for my prediction this past summer that…

The Conservative Case for Mitt Romney

I love Herman Cain: I applauded Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race. But if conservatives really want to roll back government, keep America out of new and far more dangerous foreign wars, generate new jobs and save the country…

Fast and Furious Screw Up Hurts Innocent Americans

There are now enough Operation Fast and Furious officials playing hide-and-seek in the Obama administration to fill a New York City-style “rubber room.” Yesterday, the Justice Department announced it was shuffling Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,…

Why Journalists Can’t Stop Speaking About ‘Conservatives’

“If you hooked network news reporters and producers to polygraph machines and asked them,’Do you think you are guilty of liberal bias?’ most would almost certainly answer,’No.’ And they would pass the polygraph test because they’re not lying. They honestly…