BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Don’t tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are currently mopping the floor with Barack Obama.
The president convincingly won a second term in November, but since that time, the congressional Republican leadership has outfoxed, outmaneuvered and plain out-strategized him on just about every issue. Continue reading
BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
Do you ever get into a discussion and get so bogged down in specifics, you forget what the central argument was about in the first place?
It happens around the dinner table, but unfortunately it is occurring more often in our public dialogue on critical policy issues, making debate less civil and solutions more difficult to reach.
BY BILLY PITTS
For Ripon Society
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood deserves praise for focusing public attention on distracted driving.
The market today is flooded with electronic devices that can be used in motor vehicles and millions of motorists are using them with reckless abandon, putting themselves, their passengers and their fellow travelers in danger.
We’ve all seen these accidents waiting to happen. A driver holding up traffic while he or she, with head down, finishes a text message, a car swerving into another lane of traffic while the driver reads an email, or a driver recklessly maneuvering through traffic with one hand on the wheel and the other performing that infamous one-handed dialing exercise.
Secretary LaHood has seen the future of unsafe driving with even more use of cell phones, radios, iPods, GPS navigation devices, TV screens, back-up cameras and yet-invented electronic devices, all of which distract even the most agile drivers from watching the road.