March 2, 2010
GOP Winning Coast to Coast
In the last two Congressional elections, Republicans took it on the chin. They were decimated in New York; they took terrible blows in Indiana and some big hits in Florida. They lost seats they should have won in Alabama (of...
February 28, 2010
Beware of Your Friends
I read an interesting front-page story in the New York Times about efforts by the pro-life movement to gain converts in the African-American community. (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/us/27race.html?scp=1&sq=abortion%20blacks&st=cse) As the story related, “Across the country, the anti-abortion movement, long viewed as almost exclusively...
February 26, 2010
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
James Traficant – the former Congressman, former ex-con and former maestro of the one-minute floor speech – used to call me Mr. Chairman when we saw each other in the halls of Congress. I was a staffer for Bob Michel...
February 25, 2010
Summititis
The President has a bad case of summititis. The man loves himself some good summits. He especially loves to talk at summits. According to time-keepers who pay attention to this sort of the thing, the President out-talked not only all...
February 25, 2010
Winning the Millennials
Andrew Kohut of the Pew Charitable Trust released an interesting snapshot of America’s youngest voters. Calling it “A Portrait of the Millennial as a Young Adult,” Kohut says that voters from ages 18 to 29 are “confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat...
February 24, 2010
Renovation
In my house, we don’t have enough closet space. Our son doesn’t have enough room to play around. And our kitchen is in desperate shape, and needs a complete overhaul. We contacted a contractor to give us a proposal. We...