Thoughts On Election Day

One of the benefits of having lived seven decades is that I’ve been witness to events that were not only personally thrilling, but that were memorable and historic for our country.

Sixty-one years ago, I saw Jack Roosevelt Robinson become the first black man to walk on big-league grass, and it made me proud not only [...]

November 4th, 2008 | Category: 2008, Barack Obama, Democracy, General, Politics 2.0, U.S. History | 6 comments

Happy Birthday America

There is not a more appropriate day than July 4th to highlight some of the critical passages of the Declaration of Independence and remember what our founding was originally based on. While not a legally binding document (hence, the Revolutionary War), the Declaration was a powerful statement, an announcement that we were no longer [...]

July 4th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Democracy | 5 comments

America the Beautiful: An Essay on Patriotism

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain. For purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain. America, America God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

In 1893, a young teacher by the name of Katharine Lee Bates, scribbled these words into a notebook after [...]

July 2nd, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Democracy | 14 comments

Once Again, Voters Don’t Matter

Democrats have organized their primary process in such a way that instead of winners taking all of the delegates in a particular state, or even rewarding the individual that won the most votes or the most states, a slew of party insiders and elected officials will act as tiebreakers if there is a close race. [...]

February 14th, 2008 | Category: 2008, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, DNC, Democracy, Democrats, Ethics, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Ohio, Texas, superdelegates | 2 comments

Will The Base Accept McCain?

With the Democrats virtually evenly divided between Senators Clinton and Obama, an interesting divide has become exposed in the seemlingly united Republican Party. It is no secret that the Christian conservative base and its numerous compliant media mouthpieces can not stand the thought of John McCain as the presidential nominee, with talk of forming [...]

February 8th, 2008 | Category: 2008, Abortion, Barack Obama, Civil Liberties, Congress, Democracy, Democrats, Focus on the Family, Hillary Clinton, James Dobson, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Religion, Republicans, Washington Hotlist, mainstream media | 2 comments

Rudy And Edwards To Drop Out And Florida Thoughts

Last night’s Florida primary taught us several things:

1.) Rudy’s ridiculous strategy of completely ignoring Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina predictably backfired. Now the Mayor will endorse Senator McCain in an attempt to freeze out the hard-to-like Romney. Today’s photo-op at the Reagan Library may propel Giuliani to a seat in McCain’s [...]

January 30th, 2008 | Category: 2008, Democracy, Florida, Iowa, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudolph Giuliani | Leave a comment
 
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