October 26, 2015
Tea Party Down; Donald Trump Up
This, from The Hill: Americans’ support of the Tea Party is at its lowest point since the movement’s inception, according to a new poll. Support for the Tea Party is at 17 percent, Gallup found, down 15 points from its...
October 23, 2015
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
The vast right-wing conspiracy is conspiring again. This time, it seems that they are conspiring to put Hillary Clinton into the White House. Conservatives seem to be doing everything in their power to put the one-time First Lady into the...
October 22, 2015
Fighting Crime on Capitol Hill
Like many of my neighbors, I like to check the crime blogs. I’m not a budding novelist. I just like to know where the knuckleheads are doing their worst. I live on Capitol Hill. When I first moved to this...
October 21, 2015
White Smoke and Paul Ryan
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) I had just returned from my son’s baseball practice when a friend texted me with a link to the Wikipedia page about Papal White Smoke. I took that to mean that Paul Ryan had...
October 20, 2015
Socialism with a smile
(Orignally published in The Hill.) Bernie Sanders has become a cultural icon. Some 650,000 Americans have been so enamored with the Vermont senator’s message of income redistribution and the promise of free stuff they have sent him actual campaign contributions....
October 19, 2015
Paul Ryan Should Take the Speaker’s Gavel
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor.) As somebody who worked for 15 years in the House GOP Leadership, including 6 years as a spokesman to the longest serving Republican Speaker in the history, I have a simple message for my...