Black TEA, white TEA

by Blake Seitz
Many on the Left have tried hard to marginalize and villify the TEA Party, and to distort its aims and goals. They claim Tea Partiers are backwoods hicks or else whitewashed suburbanites; they claim Tea Partiers are uneducated, bigoted, and angry.
For a while, I believed this. I saw a few signs and a [...]

An arm and a leg: the true cost of health reform

by Blake Seitz
In the words of famous free-market economist Mil­ton Friedman, “there’s no such thing as a free meal.”
It’s time to apply this common-sense logic to health care reform.
The Obama admin­istration claims the final health care package will extend coverage to 32 mil­lion formally-uninsured Americans. They also claim the bill will reduce the fed­eral deficit [...]

Health care odds pegged at 51%

The Obama White House calculated that the chances of health care passing in Congress lies at 51%, the narrowest of margins.
Speculation has been wild concerning various Congressmen and where their allegiences will lie when it comes to a vote, and both sides, Democrat and Republican, have come forward with evidence that their position is the strongest.
Despite the numbers [...]

Health summit a war of attrition

There was no progress at the bipartisan health care summit today, although no one was really expecting any.
I predicted a political slug-fest in this post two weeks ago, and it would seem I was correct. Both Republicans and Democrats have used the televised summit to beat each other over the heads with their own talking [...]

Health care summit a battle of wills

President Obama announced days ago he was planning a televised summit on health care. The summit would seek bipartisan solutions to the health care problem, but its creation seems a strictly partisan move in and of itself.
Obama has publicized the move intensely in the past few days, going so far as to appear in an interview before the Super Bowl concerning [...]

GlobalPulse: Weekly Update

By Angela Almeida
Opinions Editor
United States: President Barack Obama will make his State of the Union address tonight. He plans to tackle health care worries and appease Americans concerns about the recession. According to a number of POLITICO analysts, however, this speech could actually hurt the president’s approval rating, given what the addresses have done to president’s in [...]

Overreactions underplay importance of Obama’s speech

By Satvika Ananth
Staff Writer
On Sept. 8, the President of the United States wanted to talk to the children of the country, and people everywhere started throwing fits.
Parents called school districts to demand the live televised version of the speech, being made from a school in Arlington, Vg. not be shown to their children. They went [...]