June 24, 2015
The Center Holds on Trade
Drudge calls it Obamatrade. The Huffington Post claims that the Democrats “caved” on trade. Ted Cruz voted no, at the last second, blaming the Export Import bank. Seems like everything under the sun can be named on Ex-Im bank this...
June 24, 2015
Jeb Bush and The Pope
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Jeb Bush is the Pope Francis of the Republican field. Like Francis, Bush represents the establishment. For the 2016 hopeful, it’s the Republican establishment, while for Francis, it’s the Catholic Church, the biggest of...
June 23, 2015
The Confederate Battle Flag Belongs In a Museum
It’s easy for me to say it. I am from Illinois. I was taught, growing up, that Abe Lincoln was America’s greatest President and that the Civil War was a noble cause to keep the Union together and to rid...
June 19, 2015
Et Tu, Lew?
The Department of the Treasury building is directly east of the White House. Standing in front of that stately building is a proud statue of Alexander Hamilton, the first and most important of the 76 Secretaries of that most important...
June 18, 2015
Look of Evil
The vacant eyes. That’s what is so striking about the pictures of the latest mass murderer. Dylan Storm Roof, who coldly killed 9 people in an iconic African American Church in Charleston, South Carolina, had the same faraway look in...
June 17, 2015
On the Coming Encyclical of Pope Francis on Climate Change
I like Jeb Bush and I want him to be President. But when he says about the Pope’s coming encyclical on climate change, “ I think religion ought to be about making us better as people and less about things...