Carl Bloice

One young occupier in New York’s Zuccotti Square held aloft a simple sign that read: “I Demand Empathy.” Seeing it immediately brought to mind a recent attempt to denigrate the very thing the young man was asking for. “Nobody is against empathy,” wrote the New York Times columnist David Brooks September 20. “Nonetheless, it’s insufficient.…

When President Obama dispatched Treasury Secretary Geithner to Wroclaw, Poland last month to sit in at the meeting of the 17-nation Eurozone finance ministers, it was because, as he put it later, the way the Europeans were handling the continent’s debt crisis is “scaring the world.” Geithner dutifully told the ministers; the message and the…

First the good news: The latest New York Times/CBS News found that most people are familiar with the American Jobs Act, President Obama’s $447 billion proposal to create jobs. According to the Times, “Almost half of the public is confident the plan would create jobs and improve the economy. A substantial majority of Americans support…

There have been a lot of foreign guests in Israel recently. Many of them had their way paid. The list includes a lot of notables or wannabe notables, including about 20 percent of the members of the United States Congress. One visitor who received major attention during his late summer junket has been none other…

President Obama spelled it out for us Saturday. During his weekly radio address, he said the country needs “a balanced strategy” with shared sacrifice, and for “everyone to be willing to make decisions that are not popular.” The President’s remarks underscored the contention of some observers, including leading economists that the White House has bought…

There was a lot of sharp media response to White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer’s contention that “The average American” does not view the economy through “the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers” and that next year, “People won’t vote based on the unemployment rate, they’re going to vote based…

Her sister-in-law called her the other day, she said. “Did you hear Obama yesterday?” was the first thing out of her mouth, she said. We were at the end of the table at a senior activist luncheon last week. “Yeah, he sounded like he should have been sounding all along,” she said she told her…