September 11, 2018
Don’t Believe the Prognosticators
On October 13, 2016, Charlies Cook, the famous political prognosticator, tweeted that the race for the White House was over and that Hillary Clinton was going to be our next President. A few weeks later, Larry Sabato, another predictor of...
September 7, 2018
Dazed and Confused
Dearest Reader: I am sorry that it has taken me all week to get my thoughts together to post something. My excuse is simple: I am confused. I was going to write something as a preview for the Supreme Court...
August 28, 2018
The base and Senator McCain
How did John McCain lose the Republican base? And how did Donald Trump win it? This is one of the great political mysteries of the 21st Century. We all know of McCain’s war service, his heroic turn in the Hanoi...
August 20, 2018
On the Troubles Facing the Church
My dad was abused when he attended Catholic school in the 1930’s and 1940’s. It wasn’t sexual abuse. It was good old fashioned get your butt-kicked abuse by the Irish Christian brothers. Later in life, he would...