Opinionated Thought

1. GOP lawmakers change tune on costly health plans

WASHINGTON - Democrats are troubled by the inconsistency of Republican lawmakers who approved a major Medicare expansion six years ago that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits, but oppose current health overhaul plans. All...

Saturday, 26 December 2009 | 1831 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

2. Why President Obama loses by winning

  Thursday's passage of financial reform, just a couple months after the passage of a comprehensive health care overhaul, should decisively end the narrative that President Barack Obama represents a Jimmy Carter-style case of naive hope crushed...

Monday, 19 July 2010 | 1557 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

3. More billionaires pledge fortunes to charity

NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than 30 U.S. billionaires pledged on Wednesday to give away at least 50 percent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Among the billionaires...

Friday, 06 August 2010 | 1681 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

4. Coverage of Iraq exit shows networks' differences

NEW YORK - Nowhere was the difference between the cable news networks on starker display than in prime-time coverage on the night the last American combat brigade left Iraq following a war that started seven years and five months ago. MSNBC...

Friday, 20 August 2010 | 1708 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more

5. Partisan Politics.. I'm so over it...

I’m so over partisan politics. Especially when I’ve been drinking and I’m just trying to have a good time!! Ok, so this is how it went. A friend of mine took me to a concert tonight that a buddy of his was playing at. When I heard the...

Friday, 16 October 2009 | 2421 hits | Print | PDF |  E-mail | Read more