July 23, 2012
From Hope to Helpless
Originally published in The Hill. The thrill is gone. The Obama presidency has failed to measure up to the optimism that greeted him when he first stepped into the White House. The economy weakens with each passing day. International instability...
July 22, 2012
High School Reunion
Who knew that the class of Homewood-Flossmoor High School, circa 1982, would turn out to be such a wonderful case study for an amateur sociologist like me? H-F was a pretty unique place to go to high-school in the early...
July 20, 2012
The Perfect Storm
In 1997, Sebastian Junger wrote a book called “The Perfect Storm”, detailing the demise of the Andrea Gail, a fisher trawler that got caught up in a unique weather event in 1991. The Perfect Storm is an apt metaphor for...
July 20, 2012
Uh-oh! Obama is in Trouble
Listen to this short POTUS radio segment to find out which president these approval ratings are reminiscent of: Uh-oh! Obama’s approval ratings are at 36%....
July 19, 2012
Good Government, Bad Government
In many ways, the current debate that is raging between President Obama and presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney is silly. Obama says that no small businessman is an island and that every small businessman owes his or her success to...
July 18, 2012
Good Cop, Bad Cop
The best bad cop in American political history was Spiro T. Agnew. He was the one who said that the media were “nattering nabobs of negativity,” called liberal intellectuals “an effete corps of impudent snobs”, and said of the Democrats,...