February 21, 2012
Chamber of Commerce Republican
I consider myself a Chamber of Commerce Republican. By that I mean I generally support where the Chamber of Commerce is coming from when it comes to the functioning of the free market system. And my politics tends to reflect...
February 20, 2012
The Sad Demise of Jeremy Lin
(New York City, NY, February 20, 2013) The New York Knicks announced today that its star player, Jeremy Lin, was leaving the team. It wouldn’t provide details on the reasons, but New Four five has discovered that Lin had grown...
February 19, 2012
Presidents Day
My brother was born on February 22. That’s why I know that February 22nd is actually George Washington’s birthday. When I was growing up, we used to get both Abraham Lincoln’s birthday (February 12th) and President’s Day off. I seem...
February 17, 2012
Victory for Obama?
The headline in National Journal Daily was pretty clear: “Payroll Deal Hands Victory to Obama.” On the merits, it seems like a no-brainer. The President asked for and received an extension of the payroll tax cut, reimbursement for Medicare doctors...
February 16, 2012
Rick Santorum, Home-Schooling and the Catholic Church
I was more than a little bit surprised to hear that Rick Santorum proudly talk about how he home-schools his 7 children as he campaigned in Idaho. I thought he was Catholic. Now, I know there are plenty of Catholics...
February 15, 2012
Listen to Your Wife
In the afterglow of Valentine’s Day, I thought I would pay homage to the real deciders in this coming election: Wives. White men cast the deciding votes in Republican Primaries. White women, more specifically white married women, decide General elections....