Archive for the ‘American Values’ Category
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Let’s Focus on the Real Crises
Posted on July 11, 2017
In 1962, Richard Nixon published “Six Crises” a book about the top political situations that he had to deal with in his political career. It was written in response to...
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The golden generation
Posted on July 10, 2017
(Also published in The Hill.) Talk about bad decades. Hollywood is set to release a new movie about the Battle of Dunkirk, which occurred in the first year of the...
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Trump and Poland
Posted on July 6, 2017
Europe has never fully recovered from the two world wars that ravaged the continent in the 20th Century. And so it falls to the United States to become the last,...
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John Philip Sousa and the State of America’s Rituals
Posted on July 3, 2017
John Philip Sousa lived about 2 blocks from where my family lives today, on G Street SE, not too far from the Marine Barracks. Sousa, known as the March King,...
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Members of Congress call for return to civility; will not be easy
Posted on June 20, 2017
On a return to civility… Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) is old-school in the best sense of the word. He is a partisan because that’s his job as the majority whip...
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