With less than two days to go, Congress and the White House have moved in an expected direction on the debt crisis talks, producing few surprises along the way. On Friday night, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)’s version of the debt limit bill finally passed in the House on a 218-210 party-line vote, with no Democrats voting “aye” and 22 [...]
Here we are — four days until the federal government hits the debt ceiling and Washington remains under lockdown as a debt limit increase bill has yet to be passed. The struggle, of course, is not over whether the debt ceiling will be increased — both parties are of the consensus that the limit must go up — but over [...]
We have arrived at crunch time. In 100 hours (give or take), the United States will no longer have money to pay the bills. Will the gas get shut off? Will we get harassing phone calls from China, Brazil, and Japan? No one quite knows. In an attempt to not find out, politicians in Washington, D.C., have been frantically negotiating, [...]
On April 7th Planned Parenthood held a Stand Up for Women’s Health Rally and Lobby Day in Washington D.C. as the organization was fighting to retain its federal funding while the political parties in office disputed the budget. As an ardent supporter and client of Planned Parenthood, I attended the rally knowing how important their work is to women all [...]
Lately, the economy has functioned almost like an earthquake. 2008 caused fractures all throughout the U.S. and even beyond—an earthquake so large that it almost entirely redefined the economic landscape so to speak. Since then, there have been nothing but aftershocks—minor economic problems when compared to 2008, but still enough to leave the world trembling. Now, it seems that the [...]
I’ve long been critical of American immigration policy. Indeed, I’ve spent much of my summer advocating for immigration reform and criticizing all aspects of the current system. But there are a number of things the U.S. does right when it comes to immigration and immigrants. First, Americans have a generally positive view of immigration, most don’t see it as one [...]
You can follow President Barack Obama’s news conference and House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) response regarding current debt ceiling negotiations on live.cnn.com 9:25 p.m. A short set of news conferences tonight: Boehner’s arguments fall flat this evening – he is attacking Obama but without pointing out any real reasons to reject the spending cut in the Democratic proposals. 9:23 p.m. [...]
Well, readers, we’ve just made it through another false doomsday together – meaning, of course, that I will have to continue blogging. In light of this past week’s shocking tragedy in Scandinavia, I thought I would write about a topic that so deeply captivates a large number of Americans: serial killers and mass murderers. For my part, any time I [...]
Congress has the ability to keep the US Treasury solvent or let the nation spiral into serious economic despair, dragging the rest of the developed world with it. But time is running out. Our government can’t seem to put its political differences aside. What it needs to do is reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the [...]
On Wednesday, as debt deal talks continued to consume most politicians inside the beltway, the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls stepped away from politics as usual toward the politics of the future — a Twitter debate. With all of the quoting (read: retweeting), finger-pointing (read: @mentioning) and following (read: following) inherent in any political debate, the Republican contenders and their followers [...]
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