President Barack Obama has assembled one of the most impressive teams to start off his presidency in the history of the United States. The experience and knowledge possessed by his bi-partisan choices is phenomenal by most standards.
His running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, was Obama’s first pick to join his team. Biden promises to take [...]
George W. Bush associated the title of his 1999 autobiography, A Charge to Keep, with a favorite work of art loaned to him by a childhood friend, Joseph I. O’Neill III, shortly after his inauguration as governor of Texas. Joseph ‘Spider’ O’Neill said the lead cowboy in the painting reminded him of Bush. ‘W’ happily [...]
America is now facing its biggest economic challenges since the great depression. Last year, 2.6 million Americans lost their jobs. Last month another 600,000 went looking for work. Economists say if unemployment figures were determined in the same way as 30 years ago, we would now be talking about 17 percent unemployment levels. Millions of [...]
On November 4th, 2008, my political party may not have won, but more importantly, our nation did. To date, we took the largest leap forward on race relations while simultaneously distancing ourselves from an embarrassing and despicable time in our nation’s history.
The election of Barak Obama to the Office of the President of the United [...]
America is in dire need of repair. We are confronting the greatest fear we desperately attempt to avoid. We are involved in two wars and are drowning from an economic debt. Our enemies feel that this is a form of karma and are more determined than ever to strip America from the power it holds [...]
For the first time in nearly fifty years the United States has an opportunity to normalize relations with Cuba.
The inauguration of President Barack Obama offers the chance for a clean break with the policies that have separated the US from our closest Caribbean neighbor.
The Cuban people have suffered under the rule of Fidel Castro and [...]
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) recently held a briefing with top counter terrorism and Middle East policy researchers and experts on the future of Iraq and the Obama administration. Many of these experts agreed that the U.S. troop withdrawal plan over the next few years must rely upon both continued Iraqi security force [...]
Larry Kissell is a first term Congressman representing North Carolina’s eighth district, the district that includes Charlotte. So who is this man who is meant to keep Charlotte’s interests at heart and represent us well this Congressional season?
Larry Kissell has lived in North Carolina for his entire life, spending all of his years in a [...]
Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration represents the best and worst of times for American people. In a time filled with hope and optimism, after a country with a turbulent racial past inaugurated its first African American president, the mood became more somber immediately following President Obama taking the oath of office.
The new president took the podium [...]
The Taxpayer’s Dozen
There are 12 areas of the economic stimulus package plan:
Tax relief, child tax credit, jobless benefits, health care, energy, education, infrastructure, science and technology, law enforcement, jump start on jobs, business breaks and accountability. To Democrats, this plan represents stabilizing the economy where it will see the most progress - helping people help [...]
