Archive for the ‘Government’ Category
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Chuck Schumer Is Smart, Right?
Posted on January 22, 2018
Chuck Schumer is not a stupid man, so what precisely was he doing when he shut the government down, knowing that it wouldn’t work? He had to show his liberals...
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Seven Things I Would Do If I Were In President Trump’s Shoes
Posted on February 15, 2017
It’s entirely predictable. A new President comes in. The press attacks. The opposition forms. The hands wring. Panic sets in. Somebody or sometimes, a whole bunch of somebodies gets fired....
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Change Can Be Hard
Posted on January 3, 2017
They got rid of the basketball court at the health club at my gym next door. I bitterly resisted. I asked our local Councilman to weigh in, reasoning that the...
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Trump’s “Dave” moment
Posted on November 14, 2016
“Who’s paying for all this?” Inevitably, that’s the question my mother asks when she takes a look at any government building when she comes to town. I have lived in...
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A party divided
Posted on May 9, 2016
(Also published in The Hill) In 1912, when Theodore Roosevelt bolted the Republican Party in opposition to incumbent William Howard Taft and ran as a third-party candidate, it put Nicholas...
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