Author: Luam

Thanksgiving is the most American of holidays.  It is rooted in our founding myths, in the struggle of European immigrants to understand and survive in a new land.  In the triumph of perseverance and neighborly virtue...

Pure and simple all the policy ideas in the world don’t matter if I don’t trust you to do what you say, don’t think you have the leadership abilities to do what you plan, or think that you have the backbone to...

The Democrats proposed a bill that would fund the troops, and help to bring this war to a close.  The Republicans in the House voted against it and the Republicans in the Senate did not allow it to go to a vote.  They...

I heard a statement from Barack Obama in his Meet the Press Interview on Sunday that is very important to me.  He said “there will be no permanent bases.”  Personally, I think that this is the most...

For most on you the most exciting part of last Tuesday night’s Democratic Debate here in Philadelphia was what was said by the candidates inside the debate.  For me it was all the people outside the debate screaming...