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A Sad Chapter For America

10/17/2013 Published on Forbes.com
“This is not a time to point fingers of blame,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said after the Senate finally reached an agreement on a deal yesterday. “This is a time of reconciliation.” To be sure, we have moved past…

Reframing The Health Care Debate Is A Long-Term Political Must

09/27/2013 Published on Forbes.com
With the Syria crisis entering a new phase, the focus among Washington policymakers has shifted to the debate over the debt ceiling and efforts by far-right Republicans to try and defund the Affordable Care Act. While it makes for good…

Lowry on move to defund ObamaCare:‘We’re going to end up in the same place’

09/19/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
National Review editor Rich Lowry told viewers Thursday that despite the latest move by House Speaker John Boehner to go along with more conservative Republicans, the budget bill will pass without defunding ObamaCare. “Ironically enough, I think we’re going to…

Progressives must hold Obama accountable for NSA phone spying

06/07/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
FILE- In this Dec. 8, 2005, file photo, a man walks out the Verizon’s new corporate headquarters(AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File) (AP2005) Friday, the New York Times published an editorial about the recent revelation that our federal government is collecting broad…

Obama’s State of the Union speech a well-crafted, hollow recitation of nothing more than words

02/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The president did what he had to do. He delivered a well-written, well-crafted speech that hit all the right notes and drew the appropriate applause lines. Obama advanced the agenda his has honed over the last four years in office,…

A centrist Democrat’s view of the inauguration

01/20/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The tone of the upcoming presidential inauguration is a far cry from the last. When President Obama was first inaugurated, we got uplifting rhetoric and the promise of hope and change that was proven, at best, to have been only…

Obama’s Opportunity To Go Big On The Fiscal Cliff

12/26/2012 Published on Forbes.com
The current stalemate on the fiscal cliff leaves a tremendous opportunity for President Obama to go big. He has the chance to say that as we finish out the holiday season and the year there is still time to avert…

Lincoln — our eternal president

11/09/2012 Published on Foxnews.com
More than any other president, Abraham Lincoln shapes our idealized conception of the presidency. That is, the commander-in-chief as an austere figure, burdened by the office, yet sternly resolved to finish the mission. Humble in origin, somber in humility, yet…

Voters Reject Divisive GOP Strategy. Can Obama And The House Deliver The Compromises The Electorate Wants?

11/07/2012 Published on Forbes.com
Move up http://i.forbesimg.com tMove down Why Obama Won: Hispanics, Millenials Were The Difference Joel Kotkin Contributor Fiscal Future, Thy Name is Sequester Tim Ferguson Forbes Staff Obama Victory Could Spell End Of Conservative Supreme Court Daniel Fisher Forbes Staff Supporters…

Keep An Eye On Seniors

10/03/2012 Published on Forbes.com
As President Obama and Governor Romney prepare to meet face to face in what can be described as an increasingly favorable political climate for Democrats, both sides admit that the polls will tighten in the final weeks leading up to…