The health care summit organized by the White House ended as a fiasco. The Republicans and the Democrats could not reach an agreement about how to reform health care. It’s too early to say if the American public was more convinced by Obama’s detailed exposition of policy or the Republicans’ same visceral argument in favor [...]

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The attitude of people of color who do not feel offended by Senator Harry Reid’s racist comments about President Obama is incomprehensible. Clearly, there is a double standard. When a racist comment comes from the GOP, the media makes it a big deal, whereas when a Democrat makes a racist comment, an apology is enough to [...]

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Rudy Giuliani, the GOP ” leading expert” on terrorism and national security, seems to be making a lot of gaffes lately. Most notable is his claim that “We had no domestic terror attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama” (referring to November’s shootings at Fort Hood).
The former New York mayor forgot 9/11 and [...]

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Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator, was hospitalized in Hawaii after complaining of chest pain. President Obama is vacationing in Hawaii as well with family. I am not sure if I should call Limbaugh’s illness as a punishment of God or simply karma.
The Hawaiian spirit certainly does not appreciate Limbaugh’s obsession for seeing Obama fail and [...]

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Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security secretary for the Bush administration claims in a coming book that they pressured him to adjust the terror threat level for political gain.
On the one hand, it is not a surprise because George W. Bush and his guru Karl Rove understood that 9/11 was a blessing for his administration. The [...]

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Earlier this week, former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin condemned Obama’s plans to introduce a public heath insurance scheme as an “evil” move that would result in “death panels,” deciding who would live or die. As usual when any American administration has touched the button of health care reform, the conservatives send a rain of [...]

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Health care reform efforts by the White House are under a firestorm of criticism from the GOP.
In reality, this is a war between rich and poor. The more fortunate people are, the more they are likely to not support health care reform. The Republicans are talking openly of their desire to stop health care reform [...]

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Finally, Minnesota Senator Al Franken was sworn in after a long eight-month legal battle with Senator Norm Coleman. My grandmother would say that Al Franken has removed a nail from the wall with his hands. What a fight!
Al Franken’s victory was good news for the Democrats and bad news for the Republicans. Since we [...]

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Sarah Palin is quitting her job as governor of Alaska. The news was a bombshell — a big surprise for her supporters and her detractors.
Speculation includes that she left her position to prepare for the 2012 presidential election. Nobody knows exactly what are her motivations. Some of her detractors believe that it is political suicide. [...]

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The “missing” South Carolina governor, Mark Sanford, has finally ended the mystery over his bizarre week-long disappearance by confessing on live television to an affair. Seen as ultra-conservative and a potential GOP candidate for the 2012 presidential elections, he definitely has ruined his chances. (Ironically, he was a strong attacker of Bill Clinton’s affair with [...]

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