July 10, 2012
Governing Is Hard. Campaigning Is Easy.
Governing is hard. Campaigning is fun. In campaigns, you get to demonize your opponent. When you govern, you have to compromise with them. When you campaign, you can make all kinds of outlandish promises. You can promise to balance the...
July 9, 2012
Reagan, Not Bush
The Obama campaign is launching a two-pronged attack against the Republicans. First, they are hitting Mitt Romney for being a Swiss Banker. Second, the President is calling for an extension of the Bush tax cuts, except of course, for rich...
July 5, 2012
Hobgoblins: Consistency in Romney’s Campaign
Everett Dirksen, the former Republican Leader and Illinois Senator, liked to quote Emerson’s famous quote from his essay “Self-Reliance”: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Mitt Romney should channel...
July 5, 2012
Mayberry
There is a reason that the main character in the Andy Griffith Show was named Andy Taylor. The TV series was fiction. Now that Andy Griffith died, his iconic show is being romanticized as an idyllic slice of small town...
July 2, 2012
America’s Religious Blind Spot: Scientology
Jesus Christ and L.Ron Hubbard have pretty much the same status under our tax code. Christ, a simple carpenter and Jewish rabbi, founded the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the other Christian religions that sprang from them. Hubbard, a former...
July 2, 2012
Yankee Doodle: Political Parties
If Yankee Doodle, his pony and his feathered cap were to arrive in Washington, D.C., today, he would see a government just as the Founders envisioned it. Three branches of government, equally matched, battle for supremacy, as two major political...