Archive for the ‘Right’ Category:
ROGERS: Obama’s Vote of Confidence – America’s First
By Conor Rogers, Moderate Republican
If Congress can’t pass healthcare, America may find itself in a situation like we’ve never seen before – a President dealt a no confidence vote by a system that has no remedy for the situation.
McCAFFREY: The Most Expensive Violin
Kathleen McCaffrey, Libertarian
No healthcare system is perfect. However, the way to debate healthcare reform is not through dueling anecdotal evidence.
NEAL: Profile in Courage – Senator Jim Bunning
Malik Neal, Conservative – Debut Column
Political courage can come in some strange packages, but no matter how the package is wrapped, the contents are still good news for citizens. Jim Bunning, whose Senate career has not been otherwise particularly noteworthy, lately shines like a supernova.
McCAFFREY: Ron Paul: A Primer
Libertarian Republican Kathleen McCaffrey explains Ron Paul’s win in the annual CPAC Presidential Candidate Poll. Perhaps the Texas Congressman’s success will herald a fiscally-focused GOP in 2010.
ROGERS: A Right To Struggle
By Conor Rogers, Moderate Republican
It was participant ribbons and a lack of failing grades, not his trademark tears and anti-marxist lectures, that defined Glenn Beck’s address to CPAC. What does this say about the nature of the tea party and conservative movements?
PANDYA: Were the Euroskeptics Right?
Om Pandya, Conservative
Looking back at the debate and presently at the crisis facing the EU, it seems as if those who pushed for the independence of British currency have every right to gloat.
McCAFFREY: What Goes Up…
New Jersey’s own Kathleen McCaffrey discusses NJ’s loss of base to fund their expensive spending habits.
PANDYA: Team Obama – Bench Your Starters
Om Pandya, Conservative
When Obama was elected in 2008, voters who fretted over his lack of experience hoped that he would at least pick advisors from both sides of the aisle that knew what they were doing.
ROGERS: Focus On The Feminists
By Conor Rogers, Moderate Republican
The vitriolic response by feminist and women’s groups to the ‘Tebow ad’ raises serious questions about the state of todays’ feminist movement.
WALK: Obama – Clinton’s Doppelganger?
Michele Walk, Associate Editor
“Celebrity Doppelgangers” has become the latest trend on Facebook, but the last person anyone expected to participate was President Obama. No – a picture of the “Joker” didn’t appear on the South Lawn – but Obama is showing striking resemblance to Bill Clinton.
ROGERS: President Obama, (R-DC)
Conor Rogers, Republican
In tonights State of the Union, the President put himself more in line with Senate Moderates Susan Collins and Ben Nelson than with Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.
PANDYA: Not Orwellian, Just Ineffective
Om Pandya, Conservative
Walking through the streets of London, one has the quite unnerving sensation of being watched. It is not just a sensation; the city of London alone has in operation over one million CCTV cameras costing a total of 200 million pounds. In a typical workday, the average person is filmed by no less than three hundred cameras that are recording almost every alleyway and bus stop.
McCAFFREY: Mr. Ahmadinejad, Tear Down This (Fire)wall!
Kathleen McCaffrey, Libertarian
Secretary Clinton’s new initiative is a modern approach to the problem of censorship – particularly important for US-Iranian relations.
ROGERS: The People Are Coming – In a Pickup
Scott Brown’s Senate victory spells disaster for the Democrat agenda, but the Democrats have no one to blame but President Obama, Martha Coakley and themselves.
PANDYA: Getting Haiti Back on Its Feet
Om Pandya, Conservative
The main problems within the nation come from economic difficulties of the people, not from sociological differences, and economic progress comes from economic freedom.