After Vivek Ramaswamy ended his run for the presidency last week, I felt a twinge of regret. For me, it had been a source of amusement watching how his popularity plummeted in inverse proportion to the amount of exposure he got. The more people saw him, the less people seemed to like ...
If somehow we regain our equilibrium, whenever that may be, people will be asking, and historians will be exploring the question, "What was up with those folks?" What indeed! An Iowan named Patricia, eager to cast a vote for Donald Trump in that state's recent presidential caucus, told a New ...
It’s the New Year. I’m pretty sure you already knew that. Well, I think of all the years leading up to 2024 as “Old Years.” I’ve had my share of “Old Years.” Why, you ask? Because I’m old. And stop asking me questions! There are times when I like to look at some of the ...
The upcoming election for president has already been called "the most important" election of this century, and perhaps, the most important of all time. There are rivals, of course. The election of 1860 brought Lincoln to power and tripped off the Civil War while the election of 1864 helped to ...
My New Year’s resolutions would have already been broken if I’d decided to make any. Eight days into 2024 and poof! But I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, because by Dec. 31, 2023, I’d resolved not to make any more of them. So I didn’t! MEMO TO SELF: Try to find out ...
The states really are the "laboratories of democracy." Despite frustrations expressed from time to time with good old American federalism – the idea that the 50 individual states have a sovereign stake in this vast continental country of ours – there's always a light at the end of the ...
