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Articles Written by: DREW WESTEN
It's been a year since that exhilarating night last year when we heard the news that Barack Obama would be our next president. Over the course of that year, we have seen the leadership style of our new president.
Some say it is too early to tell; he's ...
I'm starting to gain new respect for President Bush. Wow, that's a scary thought.
Sure, he was an impulsive, narcissistic little man of at-best average intellect, who acted on his "gut" even when it was as empty as his head. Sure, he had a Manichean ...
From DREW WESTEN,
Huffington Post,
30 Sep 2009
Suppose, over the last 25 years, a half million Englishmen a year had entered the US. Most came on temporary work visas, whereas others came as visitors, but in both cases, they preferred it here and stayed. They were hard workers, but they didn't have ...
From DREW WESTEN,
Huffington Post,
23 Sep 2009
The Democrats want a government takeover of our health care system, because they believe government bureaucrats know better than you do what kind of health care and health insurance you need. They want to put a government bureaucrat between you and ...
Over the last couple of weeks I've been hearing rumblings. They're not from the staged or misinformed protestors at town hall meetings who have decided that shouting down a member of Congress is their right as American citizens. They're not from "the ...
From DREW WESTEN,
Huffington Post,
13 Aug 2009
Economists may define "middle class" as the group whose income lies some distance from the mean family income (the average of all households) or the median income (the income level above which half of American families fall below and half above). But ...
Suppose I were a psychologist charged with helping a city identify the best candidates to lead their fellow firefighters into burning buildings and save lives. It isn't practical to observe every applicant for weeks on the job, so I might try to design ...
Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. That's why I'm both pro-choice and pro-personal responsibility. Politicians shouldn't intrude on a woman or couple's most personal and painful decisions, and no one has the right to use government to impose ...
Last week, the president offered a remarkably nuanced and aspirational vision of both his principles on national security — that we must go after our enemies wherever they are and that we must maintain the values that make us who we are — and the ways ...
From DREW WESTEN,
The Politico,
26 May 2009
Over 30 years have passed since the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s led to a severe recession and warned Americans just how vulnerable our economic and national security are because of our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Yet over three decades later, ...
From DREW WESTEN,
Huffington Post,
20 May 2009
