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Zakaria: Gates Pentagon Plan Is Reasonable and Conservative | In Fareed Zakaria’s latest Newsweek article, he talks at length about Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his plan to increase the efficiency of the Pentagon not by cutting the budget, but decreasing practices of inefficiency and wasteful spending. The worst opposition is coming from the more obvious defense contractors, high end lobbyists, and political commentators. [...]
Cillizza:Candidates Distance Themselves from the President
By Claudette Rhone
Published: August 16, 2010
Cillizza:Candidates Distance Themselves from the President | Democratic incumbents are asking themselves, and no doubt the peers and experts around them, if it is better to embrace the values and leadership of the President or campaign with a more distant platform. Campaign is a tricky art that continues to be the subject of study for many students hoping to be elected or [...]
Zakaria: America Cannot Afford The Bush Tax Cuts
By Joe Patterson
Published: August 11, 2010
Zakaria: America Cannot Afford The Bush Tax Cuts | In Fareed Zakaria’s Newsweek spot, he talks about the need for the government to increase its taxes on people in order to seriously cut the budget deficit. The real problem was the Bush years. Like so many liberals have been preaching, the Bush tax cuts were really what started the current deficit, and that was [...]
Krugman: Reaganomics Is Never The Answer
By Joe Patterson
Published: August 4, 2010
Krugman: Reaganomics Is Never The Answer | In Paul Krugman’s latest blog post in the New York Times, he references through Ezra Klein in saying that conservatives are trying to compare the 1981-82 recession with our current one and show that conservative ideology is the way to go. This assertion by the right shows exactly why there cannot be some sort of [...]
Krugman: Climate Bill Dead Because of Special Interest
By Joe Patterson
Published: July 26, 2010
Krugman: Climate Bill Dead Because of Special Interest | In a recent article by Paul Krugman in the New York Times, he highlights and analyzes the popular argument by those who deny global warming or climate change. This problem with the argument he takes a look at is that it just doesn’t make real sense. Temperatures have been extremely hot recently around the country, [...]
Zakaria: US Could Learn To Accept A Little Pain For Political Gain
By Joe Patterson
Published: July 16, 2010
Zakaria: US Could Learn To Accept A Little Pain For Political Gain | In Fareed Zakaria’s latest Newsweek article, he discusses the oddities of the British system of government, and how despite the criticism from the left, the new policy of budget reduction and higher taxes is making the government extremely popular among the people. 39-year-old Tory George Osborne has teamed up with the new Prime Minister to [...]
Krugman: Economists Still Clashing
By Joe Patterson
Published: July 7, 2010
Krugman: Economists Still Clashing | In Paul Krugman’s blog in the New York Times, he points out the interesting point of view of another economist, David Brooks. Brooks says that those who focus on the demand side of economics, or “Demand Siders,” do not have a clear explanation for what has recently happened in the last two years with worldwide [...]
Dionne: A Judicial Change to Believe In
By Alec Rivera
Published: July 5, 2010
Dionne: A Judicial Change to Believe In | In The Washington Post, columnist E.J. Dionne, Jr. discussed the Kagan Supreme Court nomination process and how she managed, as a progressive, to lay out a clear judicial strategy without running the risk of seeming like a “judicial activist”. Judicial activism has been a rallying-point for conservatives against progressive Supreme Court nominees for several decades.
In [...]
Krugman: Iceland Somehow OK
By Joe Patterson
Published: July 1, 2010
Krugman: Iceland Somehow OK | In Paul Krugman’s latest post on his New York Times blog, he summarizes the situation of Iceland, and how its economy is actually doing pretty well considering its disaster. Iceland is considered to have one of the worst economic meltdowns in recent history, and a graph of those who represent the income shares shows that [...]
Zakaria: McCain’s Invasion Fantasy
By Joe Patterson
Published: June 21, 2010
Zakaria: McCain's Invasion Fantasy | 
In Fareed Zakaria’s latest column in the Washington Post, he criticizes the former Presidential candidate John McCain for his fantasy about invading Iran or starting some sort of revolution to change the regime in Iran. This came from a speech on June 10, which was published in The New Republic as a cover story. Zakaria [...]