Obama Address Congress on Healthcare – Can He Still Win?

President Obama goes for all the marbles next Wednesday when he addresses a joint session of Congress of healthcare reform. At this point, he might as well swing for the fences. Changing the nation’s healthcare system for the better is, like it or not, the defining issue of his presidency. Polls indicate the nation isn’t [...]

Remembering Ted Kennedy. Will Last Lion have Last Laugh?

My most vivid memory of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy wasn’t the tumultuous reception he received at last year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. Although to say he received a hero’s welcome would be the height of understatement. No, my memory goes back three decades earlier.

I was covering a rally to keep a hospital in Harlem [...]

Is Torture Probe Risk For Obama’s healthcare plan?

There is no excuse for linking healthcare to investigating torture. Those who do so ought to be called on it immediately.