Gaffe on Gaffe?
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post recognized very quickly that Barack Obama’s comment “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.†was a real problem. In an article in the Post called “Mitt Romney’s Misleading Attack...Reds Paint The Town Green in Rio
Last month, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference organizers themselves have given the conference the nickname of Rio+20. This is because twenty years ago, in 1992, the United Nations Conference on...Healthcare Fallout: Obama’s Growing List of Coalitions
The bedrock of winning elections at every major level of politics is building coalitions of supporters for whom you can count on to head to the polls and cast a vote for you. Especially in a country as large and non-monolithic as ours, coalition building on some...In the Age of the Selfish Voter
In a Representative Democracy, voting for a particular political candidate or philosophy is the most impactful way a citizenry can change their country. While the “who†a person votes for is what actively shapes a Republic, digging into the motivation behind that...The Social Security Trust Fund Is Already Empty
The annual report of the Social Security Trustees has been out for a few days now, and the news was bad on its face; the Social Security Trust Fund is now expected to be depleted by 2033, three or four years earlier than had been previously thought. This means that...Stay in Touch
