What would it be? Thousands of users of the popular website Reddit got the chance to do just that last week when Mr. Obama visited the site’s prominent “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) section. The President answered only around a dozen questions out of the more than 24,000 comments posted as of this writing over the…
So it comes down to this: this is the week that the Supreme Court is hearing the oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care reform law. The Justices are specifically focusing on the question of that pesky individual mandate, which as the name might indicate will eventually require that each…
Quick, what do the People’s Republic of China, Soviet Russia (along with the rest of the Warsaw Pact states), Iran, and Britain in Orwell’s 1984 all have in common? They all censor ideas that they don’t want their citizens to hear about. Soon, if the US Congress gets its way, the United States could join…
Forget about Occupy Wall Street for a moment. Forget Protect IP and SOPA for a moment as well. There is, lurking in the halls of Congress at this very moment an all-too-serious threat to our rights as Americans. Watch the first minute or so of the above video, and pay special attention to Senator Rand…
So, apparently there was a hurricane last week that hit just about the entire east coast. Hopefully it didn’t affect any of you all that much, but if it did or if you know someone who was affected, I hope everything’s alright and that you’ve recovered from Irene’s effects with few problems. Because if Virginia…
Well, it appears that the government shutdown has been averted, at least for the moment. That’s hardly cause for celebration, though, as not only is the final deal still being written up and passed, but we’re also never truly out of the water on funding the government these days either. Put aside deficits, debts, and…
On Sunday afternoon, another government official quietly, regretfully handed in a letter of resignation to his boss. That’s not very big news in itself; after all, stories pop up every now and then of a minor official stepping down because of some embarrassment, slip up, or something else that causes pressure to quit to come…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about what happened in Arizona over the weekend. In case you’ve managed to avoid the news for the past few days, though, Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords (D-Arizona), U.S. District Judge John Roll, and eighteen others were shot by a lone gunman at a “Congress on your Corner” event held…
Remember the guy pictured below? I’m sure you do; Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent – Vermont), after all, was the one that did the 8+ hour filibuster of the tax cut deal a few weeks ago. Whether you agree or disagree with his position, you have to admit that there was something great about his effort;…
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