A simple warning to President Donald Trump: Human nature hasn’t changed. Presidents are not exempt from the problem of hubris. When married to the awesome power of the presidency, there’s the human tendency to throw […]
One presidential perk is to decorate the Oval Office. With every change in administration, portraits, busts, carpets, draperies and furniture come and go. Every president seeks to project his own image and message via the […]
American presidential elections come up every four years with monotonous regularity. It’s an integral part of our constitutional republic. Despite times of war, peace, economic turbulence, euphoric prosperity or whatever, we faithfully elect (or reelect) […]
What a difference a century makes. One hundred years ago, America was entering into its quadrennial presidential election campaign under circumstances quite different from those facing us today. Republican incumbent President Calvin Coolidge was facing […]
The familiar words of Jesus, “A prophet is not without honor save in his own country,” have been applied to many political situations down through the centuries. Perhaps no such application was more apt than […]
Groucho Marx is purported to have said, “Who ya goin’ to believe, me or your own eyes?” Today, this quote seems to emanate from the government. All too often politicians hope U.S. taxpayers will not […]
Perhaps we’ve all grown too cynical — and too given to conspiracy theories — as we’ve been buffeted by the last six years of trench war politics. Nonetheless, I worry that the GOP is about […]
As Americans come to grips with the reality of our $20 trillion national debt, we cannot help but wonder how it is we got here. The saga of the farm program provides some useful insight. […]
Much of the past year has been consumed by a raging debate over monuments — especially Confederate monuments. In the wake of the Charlottesville protests, cities and states throughout the South and beyond have been […]
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