President Obama’s speech on the debt and his budget plans Wednesday was disappointing on many levels, and press reactions reflected that. Reports called out the president for again presenting no details and passing the heavy lifting to others. Both The Washington Post and Politico highlighted the excessively partisan tone of the speech, while The Wall […]

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  This afternoon, President Obama is set to speak about his plan for addressing our nation’s debt crisis. However, there are important questions about the president’s approach. Will he acknowledge that something significant must be done about the debt when he asks Congress to raise the debt ceiling, as some Democrats are now saying? And […]

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Tomorrow, President Obama is going to give a speech on his plans to deal with the debt. The speech comes a week after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his plan to tackle long-term debt and deficits, weeks after Obama released his own budget that ignored the problem, and months after the president’s own […]

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Dear Editor, I’ve been watching the debate over Prop B, the “Puppy Mill Initiative”, and have concluded that everyone’s afraid to say what really needs to be said. That is, that domestic animals are property, and animals DO NOT have rights! There, I said it. To claim otherwise is to diminish mankind’s station. People have […]

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5 “At the age of 42, I’ve come to a fork in the road. At such a juncture a man can change his beliefs in order to preserve his party, or a man can change his party in order to preserve his beliefs. Today I choose the latter. I’m a Democrat.” –Chris koster (8-1/07) A […]

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In the wake of Friday’s agreement on spending for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year, it’s worth reflecting on how far Democrats were forced to come from their initial offers on how to respond to Americans’ message to Washington to get the country’s fiscal house in order. During the first week of February, Senate […]

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The AP reported yesterday, “Congress sent the White House its first rollback of the new health care law on Tuesday, a bipartisan repeal of a tax reporting requirement that was widely unpopular with businesses. The Senate voted 87 to 12 to repeal a requirement that would have forced businesses to file tax forms for every […]

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  The New York Times reports, “The Obama administration, ending more than a year of indecision with a major policy reversal, will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other people accused of plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before a military commission and not a civilian court, as it once planned. Attorney General Eric H. […]

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Polls have consistently told us over the years that city and county voters are fiercely opposed to a merger between the two. Is this a backdoor way to have the public accept a merger proposal in the future? 2011: “This is a regional economy, it’s not a city economy and a county economy,” Slay recently […]

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