Shortly before Christmas, President-elect Obama gave the politicians and pundits an early gift by making his final few pre-inauguration appointments. One of the nominees in that last batch was Karen Gordon Mills for Administrator of the Small Business Administration. Reaction from policy makers was swift and uniformly positive. Everybody was talking about Mills’ excellent qualifications [...]
The results of the U.S. presidential election would seem to be old news by now — not that the passage of a mere six days have stopped journalists and columnists from writing about him, his historic election, and what John McCain did wrong, ad nauseum. So, while many pundits are still hyperventilating over the shock [...]
As euphoric as it all is, though, eventually we’re all going to come back down to earth. Eventually, sometime after January 20, 2009, Barack Obama is going to start actually running the country.
I am still a journalist and, whatever might be my personal opinions and perspectives, I still have a job to do. Which means, in short, that Mr. Obama and his Administration will not be immune from my capacity for complaining.
And, to tell you the truth, I am not even prepared to assume that I will have nothing to complain about.
In spite of all the talk we’ve been hearing about “change” during this campaign, neither presidential candidate offers much that is strikingly new in the way of health insurance proposals. Basically, Republican candidate John McCain wants to bring down health insurance costs by using the free market to increase competition. Democratic candidate Barack Obama wants [...]
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