Theodore Roosevelt

Obama faces tough Senate battle on health care (AFP)

AFP/Getty Images/File – The Senate's health care reform bill sits on the podium following a news conference by Republican … WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, remaking US health care, cleared a...

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Women, Vets: "Right Stuff"

The 2008 national election clearly shows our next generation of leaders must possess something that many recent and current elected officials lack: intellectual courage. President Nixon believed all leaders, regardless of their...

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Commentary: Break up those 'too big to fail' firms

We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 27 million American workers are either unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work. The immediate cause of this economic...

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Racist image conjures up unfair resentment

crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters An interesting situation is brewing in Philadelphia regarding this "lovely" image to the left. It was given to a middle school algebra class on a math worksheet to illustrate an...

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Stark. Dramatic. Overlooked. The mystique of Joshua Tree National Park

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon get the publicity, and the visitors. But there are plenty of lesser- known national parks that offer gorgeous vistas and pristine back country, far from...

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Women, vets: 'Right stuff'

President Nixon believed all leaders, regardless of their time, needed "brains, guts and heart." Women and military veterans always have been critical to our nation's success, yet there are few in the 111th Congress. This is a...

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CAPS-LOCK Rhetoric

The best way to get web hits is to say something loudly. Our discourse is often as subtle as a teenager with a stuck caps key. We don't just oppose the President's agenda, but WE STAND AT ARMAGEDDON AND WE BATTLE FOR THE LORD....

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Obama: First Pacific President?

Inflation is not only a monetary matter. But two presidents (Ronald Reagan, and before him Richard Nixon, who in 1972 ended the freeze in U.S.-China relations that began in 1949) came from California, which is on the Pacific....

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Cigar Churchill smoked as he planned D-Day is discovered after being hidden for 66 years

A cigar smoked by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as he planned D-Day has been discovered - after being hidden for more than 60 years. Christian Williams, 33, was given the artefact when he was just 12 by his grandfather...

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Sober Up

Published 11/21/09 Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, with video by Craig Harrington -     Few people realize that for the past fifty years the policy of the United States government has been to get rid of jobs. Beginning...

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