Twenty years ago this December, President George W. Bush signed the bipartisan Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. In addition to creating the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, the bill created the Health Savings Account (HSA). Health Savings Accounts are sometimes criticized as being a tool …
Read More »On Gitmo, Libya and Even Gas, Obama Says One Thing and Does Another
There was yet another of those grand pronouncements from President Obama on Monday — exercises in Orwellian doublespeak: The White House declared that while Mr. Obama was still committed to completing “the difficult challenge of closing Guantanamo” Bay detention camp, he was instructing his Pentagon to resume trying detainees before …
Read More »Can Anyone Define the Obama Doctrine In the Middle East?
President Obama has been perhaps more deeply involved in Middle East affairs than any other president and yet he has failed to outlined his foreign policy vision for the region. If anything, he has pursued a ping-pong policy. His secretary of state is now so frustrated, she’s jumping ship and …
Read More »Can You Read This? Thank a Teacher
In graduation season, I always remember the first time I saw one of my grade school teachers at the grocery store. Until then, I had assumed all teachers lived in castles alongside unicorns and other magical beings. After all, teachers were not mere mortals. They were the saints who looked …
Read More »LANNY DAVIS: Lawyers, Liberals and the Defense of Marriage Act
Just recently, certain elements of the gay-rights community reportedly succeeded in pressuring the nationally renowned law firm of King & Spaulding to withdraw from representing Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the constitutionality of the anti-gay marriage statute, the Defense of Marriage Act. I am a …
Read More »Steele Does Not Have the Mettle To Remain As RNC Chair
The run up to this week’s RNC chairmanship election debate was much ado about nothing. The debate was civil and non-combative and no one person took off after Steele. Instead candidates took the high road concentrating on describing how they would lead the party. The election for RNC chair is …
Read More »Give Thanks This Fourth of July for the U.S. Military and Military Medicine
The Fourth of July is the time to celebrate the birth of our nation. It is also a time to recognize that we would not be able to have our cookouts and watch fireworks if our country’s military had not sacrificed to protect our Constitution and its forerunner, the Declaration …
Read More »The Salvation Army — Once Again on the Front Line
These are tough times for many American families this Christmas. People are hurting. Fortunately, this week thousands of these families in need are showing up at Salvation Army distribution centers all across the United States to receive Christmas gifts for their children and food baskets for their families. Yes, once …
Read More »A Hard Case for RJ Berger
Immediately following its 2010 Movie Awards – which drew the highest number of preteen viewers since 2004 – MTV premiered a new series that by all accounts was inspired by the HBO series Hung. The HBO show stars Thomas Jane, a well-endowed coach and schoolteacher who moonlights as a male …
Read More »Time to Cut Back On Foreign Aid Handouts — Charity Begins at Home
America is facing the toughest economic challenges in our nation’s history. — Now is the time to put America first and curtail our foreign aid. The American people are the most charitable and generous on the face of the earth. Having said that, we must now as a nation concentrate …
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