Opinion: Why Wisconsin Matters

Feb 24th 2011 – 5:00 AM |AOL News

Wisconsin State Journal / AP

If you want to know what is the most important issue affecting American workers today, look no further than Wisconsin. What is happening there is ground zero in the ongoing decimation of organized...

Opinion: Budget-Cutting Delusions

Feb 15th 2011 – 7:15 AM |AOL News

Give House Republicans credit: They said they were going to cut $100 billion in government spending and they've done it, unveiling a budget this week that would take an ax to a host of social...

Opinion: Washington's Mythical Debt Problem

Jan 16th 2011 – 6:00 AM |AOL News

Mark Lennihan, AP

Congressman Mike Kelly is one of the new crop of Republican members of the 112th Congress, and like many of his conservative brethren, he is mad as hell at Washington's profligate and...

Opinion: The Lost Year in the Afghan War

Dec 27th 2010 – 5:01 AM |AOL News

Behrouz Mehri, AFP / Getty Images

One year ago, President Barack Obama pledged to turn a new page in the war in Afghanistan. At the U.S. military academy at West Point, he unveiled a new strategy for the war based on three core...

Opinion: The Dems' Epic Fail on Tax Cuts

Dec 6th 2010 – 9:22 PM |AOL News

(Dec. 6) -- It looks like Washington's version of "Let's Make a Deal" has finally come to an end. The White House and congressional Republicans are on the verge of making a deal to extend the Bush...

Opinion: The GOP Won't Cut Spending, and That's a Good Thing

Nov 15th 2010 – 4:29 AM |AOL News

(Nov. 15) -- Throughout the 2010 campaign, there was perhaps one issue that united all Republicans -- and even many Democrats: the need to cut federal spending to trim the country's growing budget...

Opinion: 9 Takeaways From the Election

Nov 3rd 2010 – 11:12 AM |AOL News

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(Nov. 3) -- So in case you hadn't heard, there was an election last night in America -- here are some of the big takeaways. Republicans Won't Shake Up Washington Last night was a political tsunami,...

Opinion: America's Misplaced Anger

Nov 1st 2010 – 8:03 AM |AOL News

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(Nov. 1) -- The American people are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore. They're tired of billion-dollar bailouts that have bankrupted the country. They are tired of Democratic...

Opinion: Three Cheers for Government Bailouts

Oct 6th 2010 – 5:08 AM |AOL News

(Oct. 6) -- There is perhaps no word more likely to stoke the anger of ordinary Americans than "bailout." Whether it's the hundreds of billions spent to save the financial industry or the tens of...

Opinion: What I Saw at Afghanistan's Elections

Sep 22nd 2010 – 5:15 PM |AOL News

Shah Marai, AFP / Getty Images

(Sept. 22) -- We arrived at the polling center in the northern Afghan province of Samengan via a road that winded its way around simple mud-brick houses, over narrow bridges of indeterminate...

Opinion: Who's Being Insensitive About the 'Ground Zero Mosque'?

Aug 26th 2010 – 5:10 AM |AOL News

(Aug. 26) -- Over the past few weeks as the furor over the Cordoba House project near ground zero has grown, opponents of the plan have seized on a novel argument to avoid the charge that they're...

Opinion: Why I Miss George W. Bush

Aug 16th 2010 – 6:20 AM |AOL News

Ron Jenkins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram / MCT

(Aug. 16) -- The phrase "I miss George W. Bush" is a sentiment I never thought I'd have reason to express. But as America slowly descends into a vicious spiral of bigotry and fear over the fact that...

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