The New Republicans

Young Americans starting an open-minded discussion of politics
  • The House passes historic health care legislation
    Yesterday the House passed the health care bill on a 219 to 212 vote, paving the way for a historic overhaul of the nation’s health system. After a year of intense national debate the bill ...


  • In a historic upset, Brown defeats Coakley to fill the late Kennedy’s seat
    With 52 percent of the vote, tonight former Republican State Senator Scott Brown upset Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley to fill the Senate seat of the late Edward Kennedy. Despite the President’s efforts on Sunday ...


  • Iran defies the United Nations
    On Sunday Iran boldly ordered the construction of 10 more nuclear enrichment sites after the United Nations nuclear agency demanded Iran to stop work on a once-secret nuclear fuel enrichment plant. Robert Gibbs, the White ...


  • A reflection of Obama’s leadership style in McChrystal’s public disagreement
    Despite his public outspokenness on the need for troop increases in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal, the top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, may have been exactly what the President was looking for in ...


  • Obama addresses Congress on health care reform
    President Obama offered promise in his health care speech before a joint session of Congress last night. In his rather direct speech, the President predicted that sweeping reform will cost less than four of the ...


  • The health care debate rages on
    Since soaring costs in the health care system are overburdening the U.S. economy, the system will likely be transformed with new reforms and price caps within the next decade, if not by December. The ultimate debate ...


  • SC Gov. Sanford breaks the public trust
    The ticker flashed its stark message across the bottom of the screen: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was missing. Not again, I thought. Two weeks ago, Nevada Senator John Ensign and Governor Sanford were the future ...


  • The U.S. leads with carrots-and-sticks
    After Hashemi Rafsanjani, the daughter of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, was arrested, the rift in Iran’s ruling class increased further. Adding to the chorus of international criticism, Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, declared that “human ...


  • Is America safer?
    President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney presented competing views on national security on Thursday. The President defended his decision to close Guantanamo Bay, arguing that the prison camp became “a rallying cry ...


  • Specter’s departure stirs internal party debate
    After the defection of Senator Arlen Specter to the Democratic Party, the undeniable truth is that the Republican Party is at its lowest point in terms of its national popularity. In the aftermath of the ...