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Letter Encourages Barack Obama to Read ‘The JOE’

January 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Dear President-Elect Obama;
If you do nothing else before taking office as president, I hope you will read The Joint Operating Environment 2008 (a.k.a., “The JOE”), a U.S. Joint Forces Command report that contains the following bit of military forecasting:
In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important [...]

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Coach-Picking Guide Applied to Presidential Race

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments

With fall just around the corner, the International Coaching Federation issued guidelines today for schools and other organizations to follow when hiring a coach. I thought it would be interesting to adapt the group’s guidelines — they call them “the Five Cs” — to the political process in advance of the 2008 presidential election.
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What if Ron Paul was Commissioner of Baseball?

December 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments

A Detroit Free Press editorial today offered a scathing opinion about the state of Major League Baseball following yesterday’s finger-pointing report by George Mitchell:
“Major League Baseball is going to have to put a giant “*” next to an entire record-setting era.” The stars, it seems, were mostly juiced, cheating at the game by enhancing their [...]

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Might Romney Presidency Legitimize Mormon Faith?

July 2nd, 2007 · 26 Comments

In a June 22 post at Bob McCarty Writes, I wrote about a Baptist Press article, Romney ‘unlikely’ choice for evangelicals. Today, I decided to dig deeper into the matter of evangelicals who support Republican Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential bid.
A Google search of the terms “evangelical” and “Mitt Romney” produced results quickly in the [...]

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