It's crunch time, my friends. The conventions are over. The Republicans have finished their four days of lambasting free trade and traditional social values, and the Democrats have finished their four days of quoting the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and begging for a...
The hysterics of the last 12 hours have been a low moment for observers of the punditry class, where new lows in quality commentary and intelligent observation have been set by various paid consultants and television talking heads (oh, and the highlight of pop intellingentia...
Look, I get the politics of it, and I am not even sure I disagree with the reasoning, but there are a few things that need to be said about the new GOP platform and its claim to support to renewal of Glass-Steagall, the famous...
Dear Mr. Trump - I send this letter as a last resort, recognizing that I am 99.9% sure this is the last chance for us #NeverHillary people to win. You see, in the name of keeping Hillary Clinton from becoming the next President of the United...
Last night I participated in a lively debate sponsored the British American Business Council, OC Forum, and World Affairs Council regarding the potential British exit from the European Union. The vote on this controversial referendum comes June 23, and while polls are trending negatively for the...
Dear Mrs. Clinton - Your husband pursued an aggressive recalibration of goals and social objectives in housing policy with his Department of Housing and Urban Development, and personally said: "Our home ownership strategy will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent. It will not require legislation. It...
I never thought you would be reading this article, and I never thought I would be writing it. Like millions of other Americans, I never thought that the party of Lincoln and Reagan would go forward with nominating Donald Trump to be our candidate...
We have seen a flood of rather exceptional pieces come out these last few days on the path forward in the 2016 Presidential election now that Donald Trump has secured the nomination. I plan to release my own piece on the subject early next week,...
As far as I am concerned, Donald Trump represents the indefensible, the most pitiful substance-less part of American politics, who is a perfect synthesis of the three categories I most fear (where normally I only have to fear one at a time): Corruption, Incompetence, and...
My understanding is that "click bait" is when someone suggests in a link title that something is so compelling, so crazy, so interesting, or so provocative that it simply must be clicked, even if the substance of what exists once readers click through is, shall...
