Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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More on the Majority of the Majority
Posted on January 19, 2013
I have been thinking a bit more about Denny’s Hastert’s famous dictum on the majority of the majority. It is still a very good guideline for how to keep the...
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Catfish Nation
Posted on January 18, 2013
We live in a catfish nation. “Catfish” is a television show on MTV about people who lie about themselves. According to the New York Times, “a so-called catfish is the...
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Rules Are Made to Be Broken
Posted on January 16, 2013
My cousin Barry once said to me, with a mischievous grin, before he got in trouble with his parents, “rules are made to be broken.” That certainly is the case...
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The Business of Business
Posted on January 16, 2013
“The chief business of the American people is business.” Calvin Coolidge said that to a group of newspaper editors in 1925, smack dab in the middle of the Roaring 20’s,...
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General Washington
Posted on December 12, 2012
Newt Gingrich famously compared himself to the Duke of Wellington during the Budget wars of 1995-96. Wellington fought and eventually vanquished Napoleon during the Peninsular campaign in Napoleonic Wars in...
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