House passes health care reform

While it’s certainly not time to celebrate yet, health care reform legislation did take a big step forward yesterday, passing the House by a vote of 220-215. However, despite passing the House, Senate Republicans were quick to announce the bipartisan health care reform legislation as being dead on arrival, while Democrats had a different opinion [...]

The millionaire’s club

According to a new report issued by the Center for Responsive Politics, two hundred and thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. If you’re doing the math at home, that’s 44 percent of Congress, compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall. The CRP’s report noted California Republican Representative Darrell Issa is the richest lawmaker on [...]

Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan?

According to McClatchy, President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year.

As I’ve written before, I think sending additional U.S. military forces to Afghanistan is a terrible idea. In focusing our time, money, and military might in Afghanistan, we’ve only pushed the Taliban [...]