Life-lessons come in many forms: some from experience, some from parents, relatives, friends, some from osmosis 鈥� it鈥檚 in the air, baby! Some lessons are drawn from books. These are book-lessons drawn from real life.To begin:Sometime toward the end of the madcap decade of the 1920s, the ...
Alert to the fact that Donald Trump loves to riff, some party operatives are bracing for off-the-cuff zingers directed at Republican Party Trump dissidents, when the former president speaks this weekend in North Carolina.鈥淗e鈥檚 going to spray friendly fire on other Republicans and settle ...
Are Republicans living in a dream world?I hope not.But there鈥檚 growing evidence 鈥淭he Big Lie鈥� is sprouting wings.According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 53% of Republicans still believe Donald Trump is their true president.HE鈥橲 NOT!That same poll reveals that 56% of Republicans still ...
In the fall of the first year of the Roosevelt administration, the emphasis was on speed 鈥� speed in putting men and women to work and in getting back to some semblance of normality, after three horrible years 鈥� years of mounting unemployment and public and personal dislocations.The Great ...
This is not Dick Nixon鈥檚 New Federalism. This is New Federalism on steroids.In 1972, the Nixon administration began distributing federal dollars under the rubric of the New Federalism directly to state and local governments. The program was terminated in 1986, during the Reagan years.In ...
Liz Cheney, representative from Wyoming, spoke last week on the floor of the House of Representatives, hours before she was booted from her leadership position by House Republicans.Her words speak for themselves.鈥�... Tonight I rise to discuss freedom and our constitutional duty to protect it. ...