Kyle Bell

Senator Olympia Snowe unexpectedly announced on Tuesday that she is retiring from the Senate. Along with her colleague Susan Collins, the two are known as the “Maine moderates” and have both consistently won re-election as Republicans in a Democratic state. She cited increased partisanship as her main reason for retiring: “I do not realistically expect [...]

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President Obama signed into a law that will allow for the indefinite detention of American citizens that are merely suspected of terrorism. It was quietly signed into law while millions of Americans were celebrating the New Year’s holiday with little fanfare and equally minimal media coverage. A few principled Democrats have come out in opposition [...]

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A little-known part of the new Affordable Care Act took effect today. It will require insurers to stop squandering customers’ money on executive salaries and instead focus on actual healthcare spending. Forbes has the report: That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend [...]

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Eight of the top ten contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign for president are Wall Street banks or large financial institutions. The list includes influential names like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase. Coincidentally each of these firms want Wall Street reform to be repealed, passed in 2010 under President Obama and a Democratic [...]

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This is great news and long overdue: The Iraq War, which started in March 2003, will officially end on January 1, 2012 after nearly nine years of fighting. Withdrawal from the country was a central promise of President Obama’s campaign in 2008. The Associated Press report, based on anonymous administration officials due to the sensitivity [...]

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As I reported on Gather.com: President Obama has raised more than $70 million for the third quarter on behalf of his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party. The campaign noted that nearly a million donors have given money to date with donations of $250 or less making up 98 percent of the total. The average [...]

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Republican politicians in Pennsylvania have floated around the idea of changing state election law to give their party’s nominee an advantage in next year’s election. The Democratic-leaning state has not supported a Republican for president since George Bush’s father in 1988 against Michael Dukakis. Barack Obama easily defeated John McCain here in 2008 by a [...]

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President Obama might not like to gloat about his foreign policy victories, but he deserves recognition for them. The toppling of the Gaddafi regime is a rare triumph for American foreign policy in recent years. Without the leadership of President Obama, the rebels would have been squashed in Benghazi and the country would have remained [...]

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President Obama is holding up remarkably well against his potential Republican challengers, despite low approval ratings. The economy is in a state of disarray with wild swings in the stock market and evidence that we may be heading into a second recession. Politically, it could not happen at a worse time for the president as [...]

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It’s quite common to hear a Republican politician to use the phrase that “the market knows best”. They should be alarmed then to see the reaction that the market has had to their manufactured debt ceiling crisis and the deal that came out of it. We are coming off the worst day for the Dow [...]

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