Ultra-liberal has a beguiling agenda
On Oct. 20, The World ran a column from Donna Brazile, an ultra left wing Democratic strategist, who postulated that the Republicans needed to change their message to a more moderate stance if they expected to win elections. She called on Republicans...
 2.0K - Oct. 30, 2009; scored 157.0 What's up with Dems?
I have traveled since Labor Day to more than a dozen states, including Florida and Colorado, both of which switched from red to blue in the last presidential election, as well as Texas and Tennessee, which remained bright red. Regardless of which sta...
3.0K - Oct. 26, 2009; scored 1000.0 Who will save the GOP?
Can South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former Congressman Joe Scarborough or former Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole save the GOP from itself? The Republican Party leadership handed the torch to those with the largest microphone right-wing conse...
3.2K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 1000.0 Words are easy; action has value
When it comes to making tough decisions, action speaks louder than words. Since the revelations of a covert uranium-enrichment facility near the Holy City of Qom, all hell has broken loose. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ...
3.0K - Oct. 14, 2009; scored 1000.0 Thanks for the rebuild
Four years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated much of southern Louisiana, the Mississippi Gulf Coast and much of my beloved hometown of New Orleans. The city, much like how it makes its famous Creole seafood gumbo a slow-cooking dish rich in savory ...
3.0K - Sep. 15, 2009; scored 99.0 Let's ease the rhetoric
I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. ... Not this time. Not now. President Barack Obama, Sept. 9, 2009 Can a single speech by the president of the United States cause peo...
3.0K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 99.0 Banks fail to meet promises
Is anyone really surprised by the dismal performance of banks that keep promising to help struggling homeowners fix bad mortgages? According to RealtyTrac, home-foreclosures activity jumped 7 percent in July from June and 32 percent from a year earli...
3.0K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 99.0 Dialogue is the Rx for health care
One of the greatest worries congressional staffers face when organizing a town-hall meeting for their boss is that no one will attend it. Now they really have something to fear: organized gangs of partisan hecklers intent on stopping a national dialo...
3.3K - Aug. 11, 2009; scored 1000.0 A mild case of Obama fatigue
Apropos of nothing, I awoke recently as unfocused and grumpy as a bear coming out of hibernation. It was as if Washington s weather had suddenly remembered its true summertime character: steamy, muggy and unbearable. I admitted to myself that somethi...
4.0K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0 Patience, stimulus will work
Once again, Vice President Joe Biden made the kind of news that justifies the White House buying antacids by the caseload. While visiting the troops and meeting with senior Iraqi leaders over the Fourth of July holiday, the vice president told ABC Ne...
3.1K - Jul. 15, 2009; scored 1000.0 Iraq mission not done, but soon
The Fourth of July is a special time to celebrate what we all share in common as citizens of the United States of America: freedom. Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about the people who live in the Middle East, especially Iran and now Ir...
3.6K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 1000.0 A green velvet revolution
In the days leading up to the recent elections in Iran, I was glued to the television and the Internet as tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets calling for change and reform. These youthful Iranians had nothing but their bodies and spirit...
2.9K - Jun. 22, 2009; scored 399.0 What is the GOP these days?
If someone says, I am with the GOP, what does that mean exactly? According to a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, most Americans cannot name one person who speaks for the Republican Party. Asked to identify the main person who speaks for the Republica...
2.8K - Jun. 15, 2009; scored 399.0 Critics need not prevail
President Barack Obama made a wise and appealing choice in nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. So what is all this fuss about her qualifications and her legal temperament, and why are some pundits attacking her credentials? Sotomayo...
2.9K - Jun. 3, 2009; scored 399.0 No time to hide
Former Vice President Dick Cheney invites public debate on the use of torture, or "extreme duress" as he euphemistically calls it, to secure intelligence from suspected or actual foes. Even his daughter, Liz Cheney, got into the act, ripping a page f...
2.9K - May. 20, 2009; scored 399.0 Lady O is a phenom
Politically speaking, it s March madness inside the beltway. Republicans are battling the new president over his budget priorities and centrist Democrats are trying to redefine themselves as fiscal hawks while the nation s economic engine remains sta...
2.9K - Apr. 1, 2009; scored 399.0 Wake up! Protect our money
Who is minding the store? Who is in charge of the massive federal resources being poured into failed businesses? Is anybody paying attention? Or is this yet another charade of robbing Peter Taxpayer to pay Paul Corporation? Is it hoping too much to a...
3.0K - Mar. 23, 2009; scored 399.0 Hard times call for new action
I have traveled to small towns and large college campuses celebrating the history made last November. Whether speaking before an audience in my hometown of New Orleans or an elegant crowd in Buffalo hours before the plane-crash tragedy struck that ci...
2.8K - Feb. 23, 2009; scored 399.0 Obama must succeed
All it takes is a visit to Africa to truly understand what a powerful, historic and uplifting teary-eyed 60-second moment this Tuesday will be not just for the people of the United States but for billions of our neighbors around the world. The world ...
2.8K - Jan. 19, 2009; scored 399.0 Obama's not in the web
In all of my four battle-scarred decades of bare-knuckled political and public service in Louisiana, D.C., and across America, I could never have imagined reading, from the first paragraph to the 100th, a more arrogant, irrational, obscene and obscen...
3.7K - Dec. 18, 2008; scored 99.0 | 
