Commentary by Eric Boehlert The Houston Chronicle editorial page wanted to be absolutely clear: References to Adolf Hitler or Nazis in American politics had no place in the “discourse of the nation,” and the crude analogies were “beyond the pale.” The practice was “absurd and dangerous.” The editorial page was[Read More…]

Commentary By John A. Ostenburg When I hear people at the health care town hall meetings, and in other public gatherings, screaming that they don’t want government to run anything because it’s so darn inefficient, I want to scream myself. As mayor of a municipality of about 25,000 residents, I[Read More…]

Commentary By Jamison Foser Depending on how you look at it, we’re roughly six months or 60 years into the debate over whether and how the government should ensure universal health care for all Americans. And yet if there’s one thing polling on the public’s opinions about health care makes[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director When the poetic line “Oh what a tangled web we weave …” was penned a few centuries ago, Sir Walter Scott had no idea what irony those words might have when applied to the 21st century’s[Read More…]