U.S. Speaker of the House, John A. Boehner (R-OH), said in his recent Ohio State University's commencement speech, "When you begin to go out there and...
U.S. Speaker of the House, John A. Boehner (R-OH), said in his recent Ohio State University's commencement speech, "When you begin to go out there and...
The Star Wars series captured the public's imagination because it dealt with right and wrong in three-dimensional way. Life, the films seemed to say in the end, is more complicated than just 'good guys' and 'bad guys.' So is the economy.
How do two Catholics -- the current speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the pope -- respond to a question about climate change?
With the exception of Elizabeth Warren, there are very few heroes fighting for the little guy when it comes to consumer rights and mortgage malpractice.
Should we exert force abroad for the national interest? (And how do we define national interest?) When and where should we use force for a humanitarian cause? Or should the U.S. withdraw from the international theater to focus on challenges at home?
Trust me. I really wanted to avoid the groin tweeting thing altogether but you might as well try to avert your eyes from a bullfight in a bowling alley. The problem is: how do you parody a parody?
The War Powers Resolution was in part designed to address exactly this situation: an unauthorized war which Congress has not acted to stop.
Republicans have had a tough go of it lately, and a large chunk of it comes from the dashing of those sweet Obama expectations. They thought they could say anything about him and he wouldn't push back.
In a radio interview, hosts Rob Douglas and Cari Hermancinski grilled Rep. Scott Tipton about his daughter's job with a tech company whose licensed products are sold to congressional offices.
Now that there are no consequences to not paying your bills, there has never been a better time to be a deadbeat in America.
If Democrats were smart, they'd co-opt Kathy Hochul's winning strategy and aggressively run with it nationally all the way to November 2012. The GOP's attack on Medicare is the absolute perfect bumper-sticker issue for them.
It is indefensible for our federal government to demolish the social safety net while continuing to hand out more than $200 billion in subsidies to environmentally destructive industries.
Now that the debt ceiling is in play, there's no end to what the radical right will demand in the budget negotiations. Which leads to a more basic question: Are voters ready and willing to mount primary challenges to incumbent Democrats who cave?
Higher taxes under Clinton and a net gain of 22 million jobs. Reduced taxes under Bush and a two-year loss of 8 million jobs. How does this equate into lower taxes being good for America?
If President Obama doesn't want to go down in history as the Democratic President who began the dismantling of signature Democratic achievements, he must have the same courage in standing up to Republican hostage takers as he did in going after Bin Laden.
It's deja vu all over again. Big Oil charges us record prices at the pump, gleefully takes welfare payments (our tax dollar subsidies) and then blames someone else for the problem.
Whether cable stations run a countdown clock for when we'll hit the national debt limit or not, the controversy draws viewers, so the networks win either way. I just wish that were also true for the country.
"If you don't want us to do something really irresponsible, you'd better let us do something really irresponsible." If you happen to be John Boehner, a sentence like that apparently makes perfect sense.
In the polarized landscape of our national politics, there aren't many issues that receive more than 70 percent public support, but ending subsidies for oil companies is one of them.
So John Boehner wants trillions of dollars in cuts. Trillions. And everything is on the table. Except tax increases. And except for allowing expiring tax cuts to expire. But everything is not on the table if everything isn't on the table.
HuffPost's Alex Wagner spoke with Cenk Uygur Wednesday night on MSNBC to discuss claims about the economy made by Speaker of the House John Boehner (R...