America's failure to build and repair the roads and rails it needs, says Robert D. Atkinson, is "emblematic" of the larger mess we're in: "We're a generation that has been irresponsible, and we're passing on a degraded capital asset to our children." ...more

March 21, 2009

Unlike Rush Limbaugh, we don't want President Barack Obama to fail. If he does, then our country fails. We do, however, want Obama to do what he's been saying all along, and that's to change the way Washington, D.C., does business - and that includes changing the baloney that's going on with Democratic members of Congress. ...more

March 6, 2009

President Barack Obama said the consensus from the White House health care summit is that there is an immediate need for health care reform, and signaled that he's open to compromise on Thursday. ...more

March 5, 2009

How ironic that Gabriel Read takes Republicans and conservatives to task for having the audacity to criticize President Obama. ...more

March 5, 2009

Can a strategy that helps Republicans get re-elected be bad for their party? ...more

March 2, 2009

Insane. Childish. Disaster. And those were some of the kinder comments from political pundits about Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and his response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on Tuesday night. ...more

February 25, 2009

Can $780 billion stimulate our nation's economy? Let's pray that's the case, because right now we are in bad shape. Anyone who doesn't think our country isn't in dire straights hasn't been affected, at least not at a serious level where they are facing foreclosure or something worse. But they will be soon. ...more

February 12, 2009

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed an economic stimulus bill that would cost the American taxpayer $819 billion - enough to give every man, woman, and child almost $2,700. This would be the most expensive spending bill in history, costing more than the equivalent cost of the New Deal, the Marshall Plan and the Louisiana Purchase combined. ...more

February 11, 2009

President Barack Obama, pressuring lawmakers to urgently approve a massive economic recovery bill, criticized Republicans who have balked at the legislation Monday night and said, "I can't afford to see Congress play the usual political games." ...more

February 10, 2009

As America prepared for a new president to take office, Carrollwood Day School took a day last week to look back on a historical campaign. ...more

January 21, 2009