December 25, 2011
Keeping Christmas in the Proper Perspective
The Holy Father said last night: “Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see...
December 23, 2011
Happy Holidays
Intermittent Check-In I am taking next week off, and truth be told, I am taking today off too. That is one of the great things about the Christmas/New Year’s Eve Holiday. Once you get past the Christmas shopping thing and...
December 22, 2011
You Can Lead A Horse to Water
You Can Lead A Horse to Water… John Boehner has seen this movie before. You have to feel for the Speaker. He knows that it would have been smarter politically had the House Republicans taken up the Senate payroll tax...
December 21, 2011
Steve Bell Adds His Two Cents
This post is from my old friend Steve Bell, from the Bipartisan Policy Center and former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee An old joke heard often in the Southwest ends this way: “It isn’t always your enemies that...
December 20, 2011
Occupy This
Occupy This A friend of mine gave me this report yesterday from the streets of DC: “I take my kids out on the Martha’s Table trucks that feed the homeless sometimes and we went out last night. We stop at...
December 20, 2011
In Defense of Mr. Potter
In Defense of Mr. Potter It used to be during the Christmas season that my family would sit transfixed, watching Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in the classic movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” as it played over and over again...