July 24, 2013
Mapping the Melting Pot
America is a melting pot. Successive waves of immigrants crashed up America’s shores and then scattered in different conclaves. Germans went to cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati and St. Louis, the Irish went to Boston, New York and Chicago, the Scotch-Irish...
July 23, 2013
Hurry Up and Wait
Hurry up and wait. That’s how they live life in the military. And it might not be a bad strategy to enact a comprehensive immigration bill into law. The hurry up part is already over. The Senate hurried up and...
July 23, 2013
History of the Eagles
My wife is a big fan of the Eagles, which is pretty cool, because I am a big fan of the Eagles too. It’s always nice to have spousal agreement on big issues like Eagles fandom. We went to the...
July 22, 2013
On the President’s Remarks Last Week
In the same week that Detroit declared bankruptcy, the President opined on George Zimmerman and the state of race relations in this country. The President should have spoken up on the Zimmerman verdict, which has become a festering national wound,...
July 19, 2013
The Fall of the Motor City
Eminem is the best thing to come out of Detroit in the last twenty years. That, and the Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial. Detroit filed for bankruptcy yesterday. No surprise there. Kind of like Whitney Houston dying. You can only dance...
July 18, 2013
Individual Mandate Is One More Hit on Younger Americans
22 House Democrats joined with just about every Republican to delay the individual mandate included in the massive Obamacare law still being implemented three years after it was signed by the President. House Republicans scheduled a vote on the mandate...