David Brooks is one of those opinion writers who is hit or miss for me. There have been recent columns when he really nails it, yet on so many others he crashed and burned miserably, caught in the contradictory tornado...
Barack Obama
52 Who should King Barack Hussein Obama go after when we are done gutting private health insurance companies and turning their mostly middle class employees out on to American streets?How about pharmaceutical companies or those evil government contractors? Why not the...
Long Live The King
I recently saw your blog at TPMCafe. Having read some of your excellent posts, and the description of yourself, I'm very curious as to what a "Progressive Conservative" embodies? Given your impressively thoughtful posts, I am really interested to hear...
dear mr. miller,
63 I learned to love Fridays these last few months, newly appreciative of weekends after 18 months of telecommuting contract work. I had finally landed a Dream Job at a Dream Company. Life had stabilized into something more suitable for long-term...
Donner, Party of Two
A funny thing happened on the way to our Change - everything stayed the same except our new president. The same tired rhetoric from both sides of the aisle from the same tired partisan warriors in the same shrill and...
mushroom clouds and smoking guns
Some may not have thought I had it in me, but I always planned to critique Barack's performance when necessary. It's become necessary. Riding home on the Metro tonight, I read a four-page article on the mobile New York Times...
Social Security and Medicare aren’t Entitlements
I have come to the conclusion that even as pragmatic and reasonable people accomplish great things over the coming years of an Obama administration, all we will see and hear in the near future (both on- and off-line) will be...
the evolution won’t be televised
This is what I am calling the Obama Equation. Barack looked at the American political landscape and wrote Audacity of Hope as a response. In that brilliant book, I believe he articulated the above equation as being the only way...