Archive for the ‘History’ Category
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Tax Sham
Posted on July 6, 2011
Nonsense. The President’s position on taxes is complete and total nonsense. He has made a big deal out of taxing corporate jets. I remember when Bill Clinton made a big...
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The Declining Art of Negotiation
Posted on July 5, 2011
Otto Habsburg, the last heir to the throne of the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire and oldest member of the Habsburg family, died yesterday at the age of 98. The Habsburg family...
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Fireworks and Freedom
Posted on July 5, 2011
I am writing this blog post as I watch the Capitol Fourth on public television. When I worked on the Hill, I used to have access to the Capitol building,...
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Taking Himself Out
Posted on June 30, 2011
The President took himself out of the negotiation game yesterday with his hissy fit of a press conference where he castigated the Congress for not getting its work done when...
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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