By Jerry D. Rose Ah, this is the summer of our discontent! Responding to intractable conflicts abroad and uncontrolled oil spills and double digit unemployment at home, American voters are showing their discontent by voting against incumbents, often for candidates with more than a tinge of the Tea Party ethos of lower taxes and lesser [...]
By Margaret Kimberley A Republican senator pledged to turn Barack Obama’s health care bill into his Waterloo, a reference to Napoleon’s defeat which put an end to his reign of conquest in Europe. Of course the mirage-like reform did pass and the Republicans’ prediction didn’t quite pan out as they hoped. Yet Obama is facing [...]
By Jerry D. Rose I recently had an exchange of views with a person who had read some of my pieces on “taking politicians out the money” just as the U.S. is failing so miserably in “taking the money out of politics.” The person expressed skepticism, stating that this is “counter-intuitive,” like “going to war [...]
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