After well over a year of heated and divisive debate on President Obama “Affordable Care Act,” the President has decided to let individual states formulate their own solution to the health care crisis. Why this wasn’t offered up before all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why are Wisconsin unions pointing fingers at Virginia? It doesn’t seem to make any sense, unless facts are less important than scoring points. Virginia has been a right-to-work state for quite some time. It’s not that we don’t have union […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you know? In Virginia we have Webb or Warner. But they are U.S. Senators. I mean your state Senators. I’m sad to say that I live in Fairfax County, Virginia and didn’t even know who my state Senator is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’ve had sanctions against Iran for more than a decade. It should be clear to anyone paying attention that sanctions have little if any effect. Has it slowed down their nuclear program at all? No. Has it helped against their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There, I said it. Guess that makes me a bad person. Representative Debbie Wasserman Shultz of Florida is way funnier than Bill Maher could ever hope to be. A Nancy Pelosi wannabe, she never ceases to amaze me at her […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One could make an argument that Virginia is one of the most confused states in the union; widely accepted as very conservative in the southern part of the state and strongly liberal to the north. If you divided the state, east-to-west, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been at bit stunned by the media attempts to compare what’s going on in the capital of Wisconsin with the protests in Egypt. It’s light years apart. But that won’t stop the press from trying to make some sort […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Anyone who understands the origins of labor unions in the United States, realizes that it started as a way to gather persons of a given skill together into a brotherhood where they could stand together to protect their rights against […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first major piece of legislation passed by the new Republican House of Representatives was the repeal of Obamacare. H.R. 2, appropriately titled Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, passed the House overwhelmingly last month only to be delayed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forty-three years ago, when the Corporation For Public Broadcasting (CPB) was formed by Congress, television had 4 stations on the VHF dial in most cities. In Washington it was 4, 5, 7 and 9. On UHF we had one decent […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…