opinion

Sun, 31 May 2009 12:16:05 +0000 – By Mark JosephProducer/Author/Editor, BullyPulpit.comI enjoy American politics on two levels: first and most foremost, because it is where public policy is debated and decided. It’s where ideas either succeed or fail and are enshrined into the law that we all agree to live …

Give him the money! Republicans in Congress need to stifle their hostility towards President Obama, and approve his emergency request for funds to alleviate our border disaster. Only by signing on for the $3.7 billion “fix” will the GOP place this “urgent humanitarian crisis” squarely in Mr. Obama’s lap, where …

In the mad rush to wash their hands of Afghanistan, President Obama and his team have made an embarrassing series of military, diplomatic and policy errors that future historians will closely examine as a case study in folly and blundering. The folly and blundering have now peaked with the prisoner …

Win, lose, or draw, the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in two cases involving religious freedom, expected by the end of June, will not resolve all the questions regarding the legality of the Obama administration’s “Health and Human Services Mandate.” While for-profit employers have been threatened with massive ObamaCare …

Federal deficits are too large and mounting national debt threatens future generations. Both Democrats and Republicans embrace demagoguery and refuse to address facts and acknowledge lessons of history. Since 2007, federal spending is up $1 trillion dollars and deficits jumped from $161 billion to $1.2 trillion over five years. Higher …

Fri, 08 May 2009 21:30:30 +0000 – By Kathleen Troia “K.T.” McFarland National Security Expert Bagram Airbase May 5, 2009 Sunday is Mother’s Day. Mothers with young children will no doubt get breakfast in bed, with syrup dripping over pancakes….and onto the rung. If your kids are teenagers, they’ll take …

Wouldn’t it be quite the scandal if the president of the United States were to pimp out his wife and her sister to use their sexual favors to win the endorsement of his influential predecessor? It was a smear that James Madison had to endure in the year leading up …

In World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was the legendary “Desert Fox” (“Wuestenfuchs”). Today in Libya, Col. Muammar Qaddafi is crazy like a fox. In the past few weeks, Qaddafi’s army has been driving east across the Libyan Desert, rolling up the democratic forces who bravely rose up …

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is in the news. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence — but the rape charges against him symbolize the IMF: an institution of privilege that routinely acts to the disadvantage of the vulnerable. The IMF’s founding purpose vanished …

I graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in mathematics in 1967. Back then, we didn’t use fancy calculators to solve problems. Instead, we utilized formulas to “solve for x.” The same holds true in life. Throughout my own, “solving for x” meant learning how to nurture a family, how …