Month: September 2009

If you are 25 years old, underemployed, and in good health, are you going to buy health insurance if it costs you several thousand dollars a year? Well, how about if the price of not buying it is a substantial fine? More...

I’m very pleased to let you know that Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak, candidate for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, will join us at Senate Guru tomorrow, Thursday September 10, at 5pm Eastern Time for a live blog...

McClatchy’s Jonathan S. Landay definitely earned his paycheck yesterday. And we almost lost one of our very best reporters in an Afghanistan ambush that left four U.S. Marines and several Afghan forces dead. The whole...

Here’s a reminder of why you read this blog. From today’s Washington Post: Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) has decided against succeeding his close friend and mentor, the late Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) as chairman...

Obama is going to give his health care speech tomorrow and a lot of focus is going to be on whether or not the speech changes any of the basic dynamics of the health care debate. My guess is that Obama could give the best speech...