March 12, 2010
Can the House trust the Senate? (From CNN)
Washington (CNN) — When the Founding Fathers decided to create a bicameral legislative branch, they were trying to make things difficult for the federal government to grab power from the people. What the Founding Fathers may not have foreseen was...
March 11, 2010
“Zest”
I always liked David Bonior. Sure, he was a left-wing, pro-labor, hard-core Democrat, who opposed much of what my personal world-view may be. But he had integrity. He was pro-life Democrat, which takes a lot of courage. And you could...
March 10, 2010
America’s Mid-Life Crisis
I have a theory. America is going through its version of a mid-life crisis. According to Wikipedia, the term midlife crisis was first coined “in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and used in Western societies to describe a period of dramatic...
March 9, 2010
Rude, Nude and Crazy?
Last week, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel had to step down because he had been bedeviled by ethics problems, including a failure to pay his taxes. That wasn’t the direct reason he stepped down, but it wasn’t just...
March 8, 2010
The Iraq Elections
It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant. I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in Iraq working at the highest levels of the American government,...
March 8, 2010
The March 18th Deadline
Most people looked at the President’s March 18th health care deadline and saw a totally unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, hail Mary pass from a guy who has set down several totally unrealistic, pie-in-the-sky, hail Mary pass deadlines in the past. Remember, when...