There have been few moments when I have raced to my laptop, because I felt I had to write about something. It may seem strange that Tuesday nights seemingly run of the mill State of the Union was one of them. Five January’s ago this country was buzzing with hope, and filled to the brim…
Aristotle once said, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” I’ve thought about that phrase a lot in my life, and many times I have tried to quantify people, politics, countries, not just by looking at their grand total, but the people and institutions that make them up.
It has been over a month since the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and the opening up of markets on healthcare.gov, and the administration is faced with a list of issues and glitches. With the end of November as the target date for when all the bugs should be fixed, the Obama administration announced…