When Barack Obama was starting the first of his two terms as the nation’s president, he said that he hoped to be the kind of transformational president that Ronald Reagan had been.  The remark was intended less as a compliment of Reagan’s accomplishments as it was a recognition that, for better or worse, Reagan […]

              Donald Trump has just completed his first six months as the nation’s president.  While the first 100 days are commonly recognized as providing the first real benchmark, the first six months probably constitute a more meaningful measuring stick.  By this point, a new president has a legislative record that can be assessed, has made […]

              If all you watch is Fox News, you get no sense that the basic ideology that most Democrats represent is justified, or even potentially effective.  If all you watch is MSNBC, you assume that all Republicans are money-grubbing millionaires who just want to feather their nests at the expense of those less fortunate.  And […]

              “Don’t touch my Medicare!” -Sign held by Tea Party protester               The Republicans’ efforts to rid the country of Obamacare are currently stalled by internal policy differences.  The House version was reportedly dead on arrival in the Senate, but then the Senate bill emerged looking not all that different, and it hasn’t been warmly […]