Archive for the ‘election’ Category
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How Do You Run Against This?
Posted on March 23, 2010
The Democrats and their allies are feverishly trying to spin their health care victory as a victory for their political fortunes. Stan Greenberg, in the New York Times, says, “Democrats...
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A Conservative Urban Agenda?
Posted on March 22, 2010
The same weekend that the President won his biggest legislative victory, a group of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson and radio talk show host Tavis Smiley, convened a meeting in...
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Protest
Posted on March 21, 2010
One of the great things about having a dog is that it gives you an opportunity to walk around the neighborhood and see what is going on with your neighbors. ...
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America’s Mid-Life Crisis
Posted on March 10, 2010
I have a theory. America is going through its version of a mid-life crisis. According to Wikipedia, the term midlife crisis was first coined “in 1965 by Elliott Jaques and...
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The Iraq Elections
Posted on March 8, 2010
It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant. I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in...
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