Alex Chediak

Sometimes you have to follow a politician's career a bit to get an idea of where they want to go. The one-minute video below is from a speech on June 30, 2003 from Illinois State Senator Barack Obama to the Illinois AFL-CIO. In it, he clearly affirms that his long-term goal is a single-payer, universal health care system but that "we may not get there immediately. First, we have to take back the White House, and we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House." Hmm. He now has all three. So why is it that with a filabuster-proof majority in the Senate, and a strong … [Read more...] about Obama’s Universal Health Care Goals

Over vacation with my family recently I poked around a book entitled Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before by Dr. Jean Twenge. As a college professor, I want to be aware of the cultural ethos of the so-called "Gen Y" (aka, Millennials). The book definitely contains insightful commentary, with some scholarly material that's tougher sledding for the uninitiated (and hence soporific on a vacation). Twenge notes that Gen Y (what she calls "Generation Me") tends to put themselves first and to have high expectations … [Read more...] about Alumnus Sues College Over Inability To Secure Job

There is no doubt that Dr. Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and founder of the American Principles Project, is one of the most articulate spokesmen in our day on the issue of same-sex marriage. Today he penned an outstanding WSJ article on the possibility of the Supreme Court weighing in on Proposition 8 (which restored the historic definition of marriage in CA as the union of husband and wife). Excerpt: Lawyers challenging traditional marriage laws liken their cause to Loving v. Virginia (which invalidated laws against interracial marriages), insinuating … [Read more...] about Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts