US Conservative Politics September 2009 Archive

These days, Americans like to believe they're much better off than the English ancestors of their Founding Fathers -- ancestors who were entrenched in a feudal system that prevented the ... Read More

Much can change between now and Nov. 2, 2010, but if the election were to be held this November, it is entirely likely Republicans would win back many of the ... Read More

Why is This Man Smiling? It doesn't look good for the US economy, but you wouldn't know it by listening to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. According to a new report released this ... Read More

It's been nearly two weeks since President Barack Obama delivered his speech to a joint session of Congress on health insurance reform, and in that time, not much has been ... Read More

Renowned neoconservative Irving Kristol has died at at the age of 89. Kristol, whose philosophical writings formed the basis of the neoconservative movement, succumbed to complications of lung cancer at the ... Read More

After recent revelations of potential criminal conduct on behalf of its employees in Baltimore, Washington, New York and San Diego, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has ... Read More

You've got to hand it to Glenn Beck. If there were any question about his importance to America's collective conservative consciousness, the skyrocketing popularity of his program on the FOX News ... Read More

Amidst all his talk of health care reform, it seems the economy snuck up on President Barack Obama Monday, as the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse rolled around. Last ... Read More

During his long-winded speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform Wednesday night, President Barack Obama found areas of common ground with Republicans, but wasted an excellent ... Read More

A disturbing report in the New York Times Monday discusses how a cross-section of unemployed, out-of-work Americans have virtually given up the job search, exasperated and convinced there is no ... Read More

To those unaware of its controversial context, President Barack Obama's speech to an Arlington, Va. high school today might not have seemed like a big deal. The president urged students to ... Read More

Late last month, President Barack Obama broke another promise. After previously saying his plans for immigration reform would have to wait for Congress to resolve the increasingly sticky health care reform ... Read More

As President Barack Obama prepares to address the nation next week on the issue of health care reform, he might do well to drop the rhetoric about "going it alone." Despite ... Read More