The People Spoke: Will Democrats Listen?
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeJanuary 25, 2010
Someone once said the best stories aren’t written, they’re lived. Case in point, exactly one year to the day that Barack Obama took the oath of office as America’s 44th president, he found himself running for political cover as the Democratic Party suffered one of its most embarrassing defeats the night before. And the person responsible for this dramatic change, an unknown Republican state senator named Scott Brown who not only burst the Obama bubble, but did it by winning the seat held... Read more »
Obama vs. Fox News
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeNovember 5, 2009
In the last few weeks, Americans have witnessed something never seen before in our history; the President of the United States has declared war on…a news network. It’s nothing out of the ordinary for a president to complain about media treatment, every president since George Washington has done it. But what makes this instance unique is that President Obama has specifically singled out the Fox News Channel, and his administration seems totally committed to its marginalization and destruction. To... Read more »
Cap-and-Trade Would Harm Economy
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeSeptember 21, 2009
Lost in the media frenzy over health care reform this year has been the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. This mammoth 1,427-page bill’s goal is to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from industry, mainly carbon dioxide generated by fossil fuels, by implementing a program known by its supporters as cap-and-trade. Under this system, the government would cap greenhouse gas emissions from regulated entities beginning in 2012 by either allocating allowances to them for emitting... Read more »
Healthcare: Must Focus on Cost Not Coverage
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeAugust 27, 2009
Most Americans would agree that our healthcare system is badly in need of reform, but many are at odds over what that reform should be. Ultimately there are two competing issues when it comes to reforming the healthcare system: covering the nation’s uninsured and reducing medical costs that are spiraling out of control. Before any meaningful changes can be made, it is important to determine which of the two will do the greatest good for the greatest number of people. President Obama has spent... Read more »
Inflation You Can Believe In
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeMarch 26, 2009
There’s an awful lot of money being thrown around in Washington these days. According to the Federal Reserve Board, in the last several months the money supply in the United States has increased by an astonishing 271 percent. But are we better off now because we allowed our government to commit trillions of our tax dollars to fixing our economy by bailing out failing companies and paying the mortgages of those who had no business getting one in the first place? We aren’t, because the massive... Read more »
Opening Pandora’s Box
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeFebruary 5, 2009
Guantanamo closure poses legal questions, logistical dilemmas In 2006, former President George W. Bush admitted to the media that he would like to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. However, he understood the difficult dilemma that holding captured terrorists posed. Bush described the situation perfectly: “I’d like to close Guantanamo, but I also recognize that we’re holding some people that are darned dangerous, and we’d better have a plan to deal with them in our courts.” During... Read more »
America Safer Thanks to Bush
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeJanuary 20, 2009
I’m well aware that defending President Bush is not a popular thing to do right now, especially in an environment like a college campus. But I feel compelled to do so because I believe that while he has been rightly criticized for the many mistakes that he has made as president, he has not received the proper credit he deserves from the mainstream media for his accomplishments, especially the biggest achievement of his presidency: leaving America safer than it was before he took office. Throughout... Read more »
McCain Mistakes Will Give Obama the Presidency
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeNovember 3, 2008
About eight weeks ago, Sen. John McCain was doing something that many political experts claimed was impossible: He was winning this presidential election that was supposed to be unwinnable for Republicans. With an unpopular Republican incumbent in the White House, McCain supposedly didn’t have a chance. Yet with less than two months to go, he had the momentum and the lead. However, an abrupt shift in opinion polling toward Sen. Barack Obama in early October put McCain on the ropes and it can be... Read more »
Time is Running Out to Stop a Nuclear Iran
By Tony Spadaccia, The BreezeOctober 1, 2008
For years, the United States has tried to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Yet now in October 2008, Iran is closer than ever before to achieving its long-term goal of obtaining deliverable nuclear weapons. This poses a very real and very dangerous threat not just to America, but to the rest of the world as well. At the very least, a nuclear Iran would spark an atomic arms race between Iran and its neighbors in the Middle East such as chief Sunni rival, Saudi Arabia. There are few scenarios more frightening... Read more »
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