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The View from Mudsock Heights: How J.K. Rowling Invented the Secretary of Homeland Security

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM

It is a good thing that there’s a new Harry Potter movie. I have no idea if “Harry Potter and the Beginning of the End” or “Voldemort Strikes Back” or whatever it is called is any good. The New York Times says it is, but it might be anyway. The Potter movies have been wonderful (well, except maybe for the last one).

Obama's Vindication in the Midst of "Disaster"

By Jason Kettinger | Nov 02, 2010 at 2:37 PM

The media are setting us up. This is nothing new; they have basically carried water for the Democratic Party for at least 50 years and that habit shows no signs of abating. Have you noticed that they've been telling us for a year that the Dems are going to be shelled in this election? There is more to that prediction than meets the eye.

Health Saving Accounts: An Idea Too Soon Forgotten

By Jason Kettinger | Oct 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM

Elections come and go. And as those cycles occur, various big ideas also have a tendency to move from their fifteen minutes of fame into the dust bin of old ideas, left there to rot without ever delivering their promised benefits. Health Savings Accounts is one such idea that, unfortunately, has mostly been relegated to that political purgatory.

The Tea Party is Compromised (And So is Everyone Else)

By Ed Hurst | Oct 15, 2010 at 3:57 AM

The Tea Party movement threatens to be a very big presence in the coming mid-term elections. The people at the rallies are true believers. They come at their own expense and wave homemade signs. Some slogans are really very clever. What you may not know is the gatherings are heavily sponsored by major corporate donors.

The View from Mudsock Heights: Could Someone Explain Why the Transportation Security Administration Exists?

By Dennis E. Powell | Sep 13, 2010 at 4:27 PM

Help me out here, because if it makes any sense I cannot see it. Last week I took a friend to the airport, and saw her pulled aside by three giggling — really — representatives of the “Transportation Security Administration” for secondary screening.

Obama Is The Establishment on Health Care

By Jason Kettinger | Nov 10, 2009 at 5:11 AM

A very good friend of mine directed me to a recent piece in the Atlantic Monthly on the state of health in the US, and the delivery of said services. I say it that way because the author, David Goldhill, says an overemphasis on health management (epitomized in the phrase, “health care”) as opposed to prevention and overall well-being, may be in large measure responsible for exploding costs, and the number of preventable deaths by infection.

Misreading the Signs: Early Regrets in the Age of Obama

By Jason Kettinger | Mar 12, 2009 at 3:20 AM

It started off as an “I’m sorry” I offered to a friend the other day. He asked what I was sorry about; I simply said, “the November election.” Regular readers will recall my endorsement and defense of then-Sen. Barack Obama during that election cycle.

Inauguration Day Hope for a Real Change

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 21, 2009 at 6:39 AM

The record at Open for Business is already clear on my positions concerning Election 2008. I did not support President Obama’s run for the presidency. But, on this Inauguration Day the matter of what might have been must be set aside for what is. And, what is – admittedly – is pretty spectacular.

Sen. John McCain Congratulates Sen. Obama

By Staff Staff | Nov 05, 2008 at 5:17 AM

The full text of Sen. McCain's concessions speech can be found below. “I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.”

Obama Passes 270

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 05, 2008 at 4:10 AM

DEVELOPING: With California reporting its results, it appears that Sen. Obama is now President-elect Obama. Votes are still coming in, but OFB believes that the senator from Illinois has already clinched the presidency.

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