Archive for October, 2009
The National Debt: Why It's Hard to Care
Posted on 24. Oct, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
Have you ever seen a five-year-old try and guess the age of an adult? “Umm… a hundred!” (Shake head ‘no.’) “15!” (Uh-uh.) “Well then, 83!” (All those in hearing range smile affectionately at the precocious kid and 35-year-old Aunt Jenny isn’t even offended) You know why this happens? Because unless Aunt Jenny is close to […]
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Put Your Lighters Up for the Justice Department
Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Kaili Boyd.
Yesterday, US Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., issued a memorandum to the 14 states with medical marijuana laws under their jurisdiction, stating that the government will not prosecute users and distributors on the Federal level. Weather the reason for this is because the Feds have more pressing issues at stake, or this is […]
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Obama Wants To Get By With A Little Help From His Friends . . . Maybe
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
‘Tis the season, ladies and gentleman: the Democratic Party fund-raising season has begun. And in light of the current financial crisis, they’re sending their best asset – – Barack Obama – – to convince wealthy Americans to open up their check books and give lots and lots of cash to the help the cause. According […]
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Education, Taxes and the Meaning of Prosperity
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” – Garrison Keillor In his first editorial for this class, good old Michael Preston lambasted California’s Proposition 13, a 1978 ballot initiative that froze the property tax on homes in the Golden State. […]
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Why We Need a Godfather President
Posted on 18. Oct, 2009 by Joel Schectman.
I am starting to think that Obama just doesn’t have the muscle. Recently an old friend of mine, a longtime staffer for Republican congressman, suggested: “Forget about healthcare. If we ever got 60 seats there wouldn’t be an income tax anymore. Its embarrassing really.” And it is embarrassing. A political party that cannot pass its […]
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Looking for the Godfather in the Oval Office?
Posted on 18. Oct, 2009 by Carla Murphy.
It amuses me when Beltway-types accuse each other of not being “tough enough.” Having spent some time around men (and women) who disagreed with fists, forks, whatever, I have real trouble understanding what the National Journal means when it says, “neither foreign leaders nor U.S. lawmakers fear the vengeance of the president.” It sounds like […]
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In Weekly Saturday Address, Obama Drops the Kid Gloves
Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
Good moooornnnniiiiiing President Obama. In his latest weekly Saturday radio/internet address, Obama laid into the insurance companies, calling them out as the biggest obstacle in health care reform (full transcript here): “The history is clear: for decades rising health care costs have unleashed havoc on families, businesses, and the economy. And for decades, whenever we […]
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The Hadron Collider – A Real Weapon of Mass Destruction
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
No, I’m not going crazy. And no, this is not some back-door way for me to incorporate science fiction into political blog. Actually, this is a plea for the Obama Adminstration’s intervention. Right now, over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries are building a doomsday device – – one so sensitive that if […]
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President Snowe?
Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by Michael Preston.
“Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls. And I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our […]
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The Nobel Prize…and yes I know it's late.
Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Kaili Boyd.
I didn’t exactly intend to jump on the the Nobel Peace bandwagon so late, but as many of you know, I’m on drugs that render me pretty useless for more than about five hours a day. In any event, as usual, I haven’t read anyone elses posts on the subject so far so here we […]
