Archive for the ‘election’ Category
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The Lessons of 1990
Posted on July 19, 2011
I learned to drink coffee in 1990. I worked for House Minority Leader Bob Michel as a junior-level staffer, and I spent many a late night and quite a few...
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History
Posted on July 15, 2011
I can’t tell if this current Congress is making history, defying history, ignoring history, or will soon be history. I had dinner last night with a Freshman member of the...
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The Pelosi-Bachmann Axis
Posted on July 12, 2011
Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, must be very happy with her colleague Michele Bachmann. Bachmann (R-Minn.) has stated repeatedly that she will never vote to increase the debt limit....
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Control-Freaks
Posted on June 28, 2011
We live in a nation of control-freaks. Everybody wants to be able to control his or her own lives in a world where America increasingly is not in control. We...
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Debt and Taxes
Posted on June 27, 2011
Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes. These days, the same could probably be said for debt and...
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