Posts Tagged ‘Newt Gingrich’
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America’s Existential Crisis
Posted on November 13, 2015
I wasn’t smart enough to major in Philosophy when I was in college. I was never patient enough to wade through Hegal or willing to take the vow of poverty...
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Boehner Exits
Posted on October 29, 2015
(Published in The Christian Science Monitor) Buzz Lukens helped to make John Andrew Boehner. Lukens was a Republican lawmaker from the Cincinnati area who was accused of paying a mother...
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White Smoke and Paul Ryan
Posted on October 21, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) I had just returned from my son’s baseball practice when a friend texted me with a link to the Wikipedia page about Papal White...
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Paul Ryan Should Take the Speaker’s Gavel
Posted on October 19, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor.) As somebody who worked for 15 years in the House GOP Leadership, including 6 years as a spokesman to the longest serving Republican Speaker...
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The Myth of Regular Order
Posted on October 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In the aftermath of the Jim Wright resignation and the House bank scandal in the early 1990s, then-Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) and then-House Minority...
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