Eric Holder answered the important questions right in his confirmation hearing. In his sworn testimony, under questioning from Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, Holder stated unequivocally...
Picture courtesy of Amanda Jaffe. When the presidential primaries started, Barack Obama was already something of a celebrity. And from the beginning, his campaign's posters and Web site were...
I have let this go for far too long. I'm not conceited enough to think that what I have to say will make much difference either way, but as a United States citizen, a Jew, and a person who considers...
Well, he did it. I joked about it, but even I didn't really think he'd do it. Rod Blagojevich, the ballsiest man in America, actually made an appointment to fill Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat....
We Americans have watched our government shell out billions of dollars to keep massive investment banks and insurance companies afloat after their irresponsible actions created the economic crisis in...
Regulation failures have just become a punchline of a truly sick joke these days as the global financial system melts down. Yet the exposure of Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme...
Rod Blagojevich may be the cockiest man in politics. And that’s a tough one, considering he comes from the country of Ted Stevens and the state of Rahm Emanuel. The Illinois governor essentially...
I am aware that at times I sound like the Obama administration's chief cheerleader, but after eight years of Bush policies that felt like a kick in the guts or a punch in the jaw every couple of...
For a while, people scoffed at Barack Obama’s run for the presidency, writing him off as a naïve idealist who could never make it halfway through the primaries, let alone into the Oval Office. His...
Barack Obama, in his first press conference as president-elect, stressed that the U.S. has only one president at a time. The rest of us would do well to remember that. George W. Bush is still in...