Posts Tagged ‘Senate’
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Murder on the Orient Express and Judge Gorsuch
Posted on April 6, 2017
“Murder on the Orient Express” was one of the first movies that I remember seeing at the movie theater when I was a kid. Based on the Agatha Christie novel,...
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Contempt for the Rules of the Senate Leads to Contempt of the Senate
Posted on February 8, 2017
A radical Republican, Charles Sumner was a fierce and outspoken critic of what Kenneth Stampp called the peculiar institution, better known to us as slavery. In 1856, he delivered a...
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Anatomy of a Winning Senate Campaign
Posted on September 12, 2016
This originally appeared on the website Political Storm. It wasn’t all that clear at the beginning of the election cycle that Rob Portman, Ohio’s junior senator, would be able to...
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Presidential Trolling on Guns
Posted on January 7, 2016
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) Outside of personal reasons, President Obama issued his executive order on guns for two reasons. First, he is not up for reelection. Second, the...
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The Lessons of Roth-Kemp
Posted on December 16, 2015
When Bruce Thompson and Jim Brady started selling a tax reform plan in the late 1970’s, they didn’t get into specifics or try to educate people on the intricacies of...
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