Month: September 2015

I’m sure my government teachers covered the issue of nepotism in public employee hires back before their were any prohibitions of it.   Corruption, incompetence, cronyism.  And the establishment of  merit...

In the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, our fearless editor in chief Paul Glastris makes an astute historical point about the Iranian Hostage Crisis: In the eleven years prior to the hostage crisis, five U.S. ambassadors...

Sen. Cory Booker did what I expected him to do, which is to wait until it was too late to matter to make a decision on whether or not to endorse the nuclear deal with Iran, and then to endorse it. This makes the most political...

I find this quite interesting. A close associate tells Politico that Donald Trump plans to sign a loyalty pledge “that would bind him to endorse the Republican nominee, and would preclude a third-party run. Trump made the...

This is going to outrage you. If it doesn’t I’ll be shocked. And while a good litigation attorney would be nice, assistance from anyone would be nice. So, what is the matter in question? Well …. A group of poor...