Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
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Honesty Is the Best Policy, But Not Always Expedient
Posted on February 8, 2017
Honesty Is the Best Policy, But Not Always Expedient There’s a difference between telling a lie and getting your facts wrong. Telling a lie is pretty common in politics. The...
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Don’t Believe the Obama Hype
Posted on December 22, 2016
History will judge Barack Obama kindly. I’m not saying he is a great President. He’s not. But historians will look at several things that happened during his tenure in the...
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History and The Path Forward for Paul Ryan if Hillary Clinton Wins the White House
Posted on November 1, 2016
How should Paul Ryan engage Hillary Clinton, should she win the White House and he keep his Speakership? There are no obvious pathways forward. The country is bitterly divided. The...
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History Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line
Posted on September 22, 2016
History doesn’t move in a straight line. And for that reason, I hope they have some extra space at the African-American History Museum, slated to open up this weekend. Because...
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Backroads to the Beach
Posted on August 24, 2016
I took the backroads to the beach. I don’t like driving down 95 anyway and I had heard traffic was especially terrible. And so I took a circuitous route down...
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