Barack Obama proved it Nov. 4. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg hopes to prove it, too. In both cases, “it” is the fact that no experience is required to serve in either as president or as a member of the U.S. Senate. As the cartoon above makes clear, anything is possible as long as you have money. [...]
No Experience Required to Serve in U.S. Senate
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Barack Obama, Caroline Kennedy, caroline kennedy schlossberg, Kennedy, my personal litmus, no experience required, Obama, schlossberg, U.S. Senate, White House
Governors Display New Hunger for Tax Revenue
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Imagine receiving a ticket after ordering food at a restaurant’s drive-thru window. Though frightening, it might become possible if two state governors find a way to combine their seemingly-unrelated efforts to raise taxes. A piece published in the New York Daily News almost two weeks ago outlined Gov. David Paterson’s effort to impose 88 new [...]
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Russian Solves College Football Playoff Dilemma (Updated)
December 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Igor Panarin, a Russian academic whose prediction of the United States’ demise in 2010 made him the subject of a Wall Street Journal article today, may have unwittingly provided those calling for a college football playoff with a solution. Put politics aside for the moment and take a look at Panarin’s 2010 map of the [...]
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‘The Politics of Fat’ is Weighty, Must-Read Piece
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve decided to give the subject of obesity additional weight on this blog by highlighting Andrew Ferguson’s must-read piece, The Politics of Fat, that appears in the Jan. 5, 2009, edition of Weekly Standard. Ferguson uses the first two paragraphs of his article to provide an overview of the anti-obesity legislation — which, I believe, [...]
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Was Barack Obama Standing Up for States Rights When He Tossed His Grandma’s Ashes Into Sea?
December 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
If events transpiring in Hawaii in recent days are any indication, Barack Obama might be reversing his field and standing up as an advocate of states rights when it comes to matters of environmental law. On Friday, according to several online observers, including this one and this one, the soon-to-be 44th president of the United [...]
Tags: · aloha state, ashes, Barack Obama, burial at sea, environmental law, EPA, federal environmental law, hawaii, madelyn dunham, oahu, Obama, obama's grandmother, obama's grandmother's ashes, state environmental law, states rights
