Browsing the “POLITICS” Category
Published on November 5th, 2013
In less than forty-eight hours, Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be winning re-election for a second term as the Capo Di Capi of the Garden State. The only big questions facing political prognosticators are [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 28th, 2013
What is a Republican? In this confused climate, it may be impossible to understand what a Republican is without looking back at what a Republican was. Only by tracing our path to this point can we [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 22nd, 2013
A good, solid shellacking opens a window of opportunity for reflection. Here are a few things Republicans should perhaps be evaluating as we wait for the odor of humiliation to fade. WHY is the national debt [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 18th, 2013
Rahm Emanuel splurges on amenities for the elite, while poor and middle-class Chicagoans suffer. Rahm Emanuel inherited a tough challenge when he became mayor of Chicago in 2011: the city faced hundreds of millions of dollars [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 15th, 2013
These same members of Congress are unwilling to be arrested in front of the White House in protest of Obama ignoring the unemployment rate in the Black community. They are unwilling to be arrested for protesting [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 12th, 2013
“The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself. We have become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to like-minded people, but devastatingly we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 8th, 2013
The government shutdown has at least succeeded in making one fact apparent. Republicans in Congress do not like the ACA. Now we finally know. They do not like it “in a box, with a fox, in [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on October 8th, 2013
Fellow Leaguer Tod Kelly wrote a post a few days about his doubts that the GOP would change from what some see as a self-destructive path. I have to say that I have come to agree that [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on September 30th, 2013
When Mitt Romney last year described himself as “severely conservative,” he was perhaps marking the nadir in the decline of conservatism as a potent, coherent political philosophy. In common usage now “conservative” means little more than [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on September 26th, 2013
I always enjoy reading political analyst Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics. What makes him interesting is that he tends to go against the conventional wisdom that is flying around the politisphere. Recently, he wrote a [&hellip…; Read More →