Politicians | Politicians
May.10.2012
You know what bugs me? People who make fun of politicians. For that matter, people who get down on lawyers, too, but let me say my piece about politicians. Particularly high-ranking politicians. George W. Bush? How about running against that wildcat, Ann Richards, and coalescing the disparate...
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May.08.2012
It’s hard to tell if he’s just having lunch or if he’s already laying the groundwork for re-election.He smiles when he speaks, no matter how long he’s speaking, and it’s hard to imagine how anyone could speak that long and smile all the way through. It’s like he’s in some alternate universe...
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Feb.03.2012
I’m not that old, even if my nineteen-year-old daughter Laura thinks I am. I say this because whenever I start talking about the time before Laura was born (1993), she rolls her eyes and make jokes about me walking five miles to school in bare feet through snowstorms, which, for the record, I...
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Jan.28.2012
Thoughts of sex awoke me this morning and drove me from my bed, and then I thought of Newt Gingrich.
I was thinking of why people slip out of their agreements, stray into other pastures, and taste others' lips. Not hard to imagine. The man and woman have been together a while. They bore one another...
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Dec.08.2011
As someone who writes about truth, I feel more obligated than inspired to say something about Blagojevich. If there's anything interesting in the story and the 14-year sentence that was just handed down, it's that he represents our worst fears about politicians. Sometimes, we hand politicians our...
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Aug.23.2011
The Great Conversation
It must not come to a national tragedy before Americans correct the course of our nation from one of overspending and indebtedness to one of economic well-being and prosperity once again. Where has the moral compass of the country begun to point? Other nations have looked to...
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Jun.08.2011
First of all, let me say that I am not resigning from office.
Secondly, there is a perfectly logical explanation for those photos.
But I am not here to deny things. I am here to deny things, and then come clean and propose a plan for the future.
I want to begin by saying that I have made mistakes....
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Feb.16.2011
As much as I have needed to vent about the burgeoning ‘boat people’ issue on Australian shores, for some time now I have resisted, out of concern that I might open the floodgates of my frustration, despair and rage. Today I realised that I was being ruled by fear of the unknown. This very same...
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Dec.09.2010
Heroism is being retailed quite easily. What you see about such sensitive information is the probability factor designed to create fear and comply with the filibustering by a few big nations.
Julian Assange gets arrested in London for a crime he says he has not committed and not for a...
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Sep.05.2010
Tony Blair mentioned in his autobiography that when he was Prime Minister he drank a stiff whisky or a gin & tonic before dinner. Followed by a few glasses of wine at dinner, or maybe half a bottle, Tony admitted. ‘So not excessively excessive’, he concluded. I think it must have been just that...
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