November 12, 2009
Ike and Reagan
Ike and Reagan I was at a dinner party last night, and got into an unintended argument about who was the better President: Ronald Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower. I took the improbable position that Ike was a better President than...
November 11, 2009
Veterans Day
Veterans Day At the 11th hour of 11th day of the 11 month in 1918, the Germans signed the peace treaty that ended the First World War. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that every November 11th be known as Armistice Day to...
November 10, 2009
Don’t Fear the Primary
Washington (CNN) — Tea Party activists and other conservative Republicans are threatening to run their candidates against more moderate senatorial and congressional candidates in next year’s primaries. Many Washington-based lawmakers have recoiled against the notion of the primary, worried that...
November 10, 2009
Damned if they do….
Damned If They Do, Damned if They Don’t I was gone last weekend, so I wasn’t paying too much attention to the floor debate and amendment process that surrounded the health care bill. That is why I was surprised when...
November 9, 2009
My Brother’s Mother-in-Law
I was in South Bend this weekend and stayed at my brother’s in-law’s house the night after the game (the drive back to Chicago was just a bit too long). The next morning, two things were of top concern of...
November 9, 2009
Being and Time
Being and Time I still remember my freshman year philosophy teacher intoning in mind-numbing fashion, “Being qua Being.” He was talking about the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, and his seminal philosophical work “Being and Time”. I never could figure out...