Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
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Martin Luther King Jr., Free Market Reformer?
Posted on January 17, 2011
Barack Obama. Oprah Winfrey. Robert Johnson. Dick Parsons. Bill Cosby. Michael Jordan. Tiger Woods. It goes without saying that all of these individuals owe a great deal to Martin Luther...
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Making the Personal Profound
Posted on January 13, 2011
President Obama spoke from the heart last night, and it worked for him and for the country. He made the intensely personal profound. By highlighting first the lives of those...
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Capitol Hill Tragedy
Posted on January 12, 2011
I have lived on and off Capitol Hill now for more than 20 years. I lived on the Hill in the early 1990’s during the bad old days, when the...
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Insanity Makes An Entrance
Posted on January 11, 2011
It was Charles Manson who said: “Years ago, it meant something to be crazy. Now everyone’s crazy.” It sure seems that way. You just have to take a look at...
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Russell Weston, Jared Lee Loughner and Political Civility
Posted on January 10, 2011
On July 24th, 1998, just as the House of Representatives concluded debate on contentious health care legislation, Russell Weston stepped into the Capitol building, fired a gun, killing Officer Jacob...
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