Tag Archives: president

How climate change may be hurting our health

05/21/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The skyline of downtown Los Angeles through a layer of smog is seen in the distance from a rooftop in Hollywood, California, May 31, 2006. (REUTERS/Fred Prouser/Files) According to the recently released third National Climate Assessment, the effects of climate…

Can Anything Stop Putin? The US And EU Need A Coherent Foreign Policy

05/16/2014 Published on Forbes.com
It has now been several months since the Ukrainian protests began on the Maidan in Kiev and nearly two since Russia annexed Crimea. Through it all, the US and the EU has continually failed to find a way to properly…

Where Is The Party Of “Yes?”: Healthcare And The Midterm Elections

05/08/2014 Published on Forbes.com
The Republicans just don’t want to be anything but the party of “no.” They continue to oppose Obama’s legislative and policy agenda in areas both warranted and unwarranted. Democrats in Congress and in the administration point to this as evidence…

How pollution is harming the Earth – and our health

04/28/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The skyline of downtown Los Angeles through a layer of smog is seen in the distance from a rooftop in Hollywood, California, May 31, 2006. (REUTERS/Fred Prouser/Files) Pollution, quite literally, stinks. And as ominous images from around the world show,…

Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the truth about racism

Published on Foxnews.com
When you picture a racist, what images spring to mind? I ask, because in a single week, my own answer to that question has come to include to images of otherwise seemingly innocent types, and in that shift, lay important…

Obama is right to grant drug offenders clemency

04/24/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
President Barack Obama. (AP) Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that the Obama administration will welcome applications for clemency from non-violent drug offenders – users or, perhaps, distributors – who have served at least 10 years in jail and…

Easter 2014: Hope for the dead

04/17/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
What is the connection between freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and…

Health And Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Resigns

04/10/2014 Published on Forbes.com
After holding tight to her position as Health and Human Services Secretary for five years, Kathleen Sebelius resigned earlier this evening. Sebelius became a household name in the fall for her role supervising the troubled rollout of the Healthcare.gov website…

NSA still wants to collect records without probable cause

03/27/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing the rights of all persons when the government is pursuing them is more specific than the Fourth Amendment. The linchpin of that specificity is the…

As The G-7 Meets In The Hague, Russia Keeps Hurting Ukraine

03/24/2014 Published on Forbes.com
The thousands of Russian troops that are building up along the Ukrainian border are concerning to us all. In light of this aggressive move, the Ukrainian government has made it clear that they are prepared for all out war, even…