Red Blue America

Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk look at current events from a red state and a blue state perspective. 500. Moves Thursday.

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RedBlueAmerica: Are White House scandals a Big Government scandal? bc-redblueamerica23(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE), American League Baseball (BA), Special (LL) May 23, 2013 11:30 AM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS Congress this week delved deeper into claims that the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeted conservative and religious nonprofit groups for extraordinary scrutiny in 2009 and 2010, and kept mum about the until
RedBlue: Can Barack Obama survive scandals? bc-redblue16-scandal(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 16, 2013 3:25 PM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS President Barack Obama has suddenly found himself mired in three different scandals: The ongoing Republican anger over the September attacks on the Libyan consulate in Benghazi; the revelation that the Internal Revenue
RedBlue: Does scandal lurk in U.S. consulate ruins? bc-redblueamerica09(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) May 9, 2013 12:10 PM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS A GOP-led probe into last fall's deadly attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, this week produced testimony from diplomats who said that a request for Special Forces assistance in repelling the attack had
RedBlue: With Plan B contraception, what's right age limit? bc-redblueamerica02(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE), Special (LL) May 2, 2013 1:45 PM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS The Food and Drug Administration this week announced new rules that would make Plan B emergency contraception available on an over-the-counter basis to all teens and women age 15 and older. Meanwhile, the Obama admin
RedBlue: How well is U.S. balancing security and liberty? bc-redblueamerica25(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE), Special (LL) Apr 25, 2013 1:44 PM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS How well is the United States balancing security versus liberty? More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the American commitment to both security and liberty came under scrutiny again with the
RedBlue: Struggling to balance security and liberty bc-redblueamerica(sh) | By: JOEL MATHIS AND BEN BOYCHUK | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Apr 25, 2013 12:06 PM By JOEL MATHIS AND BEN BOYCHUK More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the American commitment to both security and liberty came under scrutiny again with last week's deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. The surviving s
Scripps Howard News Service OP-ED budget bc-opedsked25(sh) | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Apr 25, 2013 11:40 AM Here is the Scripps Howard News Service OP-ED budget for Thursday, April 25, 2013. If you have questions or comments, reach SHNS editors at 202-408-2721. For all SHNS content and archives, visit our website at www.shns.com. SCRIPPS HOWARD EDITORIALS
RedBlueAmerica: What should immigration bill do? bc-redblueamerica18(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Apr 18, 2013 1:43 PM A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators has crafted a long-sought-after immigration bill, one that strengthens border security while offering a new pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The bill would require proof that "high-risk bor
RedBlue: 'Accidental Racist' deliberately stirs things up bc-redblue11-racist(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE), Special (LL) Apr 11, 2013 1:18 PM America's culture wars took a detour this week with the arrival of "Accidental Racist," a duet single by country singer Brad Paisley and rapper LL Cool J. -- a sort of "Ebony and Ivory" for the 21st century that's generated a lot more vitriol than it
RedBlue: Will Pope Francis build support for U.S. Church? bc-redblue04-pope(sh) | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Apr 4, 2013 2:29 PM By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS Pope Francis has headed the worldwide Roman Catholic Church for just a few weeks now, but commentators have made much of his personal style. He eschews fancy clothes and big apartments for simple shoes and a small hot
RedBlue: Iraq invasion, decade later, offers mixed lessons redblueamerica21 | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Mar 21, 2013 2:45 PM Ten years ago this week, then-President George W. Bush ordered American troops to invade Iraq, an act preceded by months of assertions that Saddam Hussein was building up his weapons of mass destruction to use against America. In the wake of the 9/11
RedBlue: Should government set limits on soda size? redblueamerica14 | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Mar 14, 2013 11:40 AM New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was dealt a defeat this week, when a judge struck down his law limiting soda sizes in the city to no more than 16 ounces. He defended the measure as an anti-obesity effort; his numerous, loud and vocal critics decried
RedBlue: Can conservatives be trusted with GOP's future? redblueamerica07 | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Mar 7, 2013 2:55 PM The Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual gathering of the movement's best and brightest stars -- and a place that every future GOP presidential candidate must appear to get in the good graces of the party's conservative base. But thi
RedBlue: Should Voting Rights Act be altered? redblueamerica28 | By: BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHIS | Editorials and Opinion (KE) Feb 28, 2013 4:10 PM Should the Supreme Court strike down part of the Voting Rights Act? When the Voting Rights Act was passed in the 1960s, it was seen as a great achievement -- Congress taking action to ensure that African-Americans around the country, but particularly
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Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis are journalists who happen to disagree about most of the issues of the day, yet manage to have lively discussions about politics and pop culture without rancor. Boychuk, a conservative with a contrarian streak, is a former editorial writer for Investor's Business Daily and the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California. He is currently a blogger (http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com) and freelance writer in California. Mathis, a liberal with a libertarian streak, is an award-winning online journalist and current online editor of Philadelphia Weekly (http://politics.phillyweekly.com).