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A bumpy road to bipartisanship
The road doesn’t care if you are young or old, male or female, rich or poor. The road is there for you, to calm you and excite you, to take you back home and to familiar places to lead to new paths of adventure, discovery and joy. To let the explorer in you explore. WhenRead moreIn campaign for 2016, bridesmaids revisited
As the plethora of presidential candidates continues to swell, sending debate planners into conniptions and launching heavy breathing over meaningless polls, the lineups of both parties feature what has become a political certainty: one-time presidential nomination hopefuls taking another shot to win it all. Or, as they are sometimes dubbed: bridesmaids. So let’s clear upRead moreWill Never Again Happen Again?
Here are excerpts from a literary gathering on the horrors of war and how the lessons of history are not learned as the slaughter continues. To watch please go here:Read moreMr. Hughes comes to Washington
It was a clear morning when a 61-year-old Florida mail carrier named Doug Hughes decided to make public his protest regarding the heinous grip that money has on politics. So as he has professed to a few in advance, on Tax Day, Hughes flew his gyrocopter from Gettysburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C., and landed onRead moreWill “Never Again” Happen Again? With Tom Squitieri
Here’s a quick recap of our latest Salon Series: The Uncondemned, “Will ‘Never Again’ Happen Again?” with award-winning journalist Tom Squitieri! It was a wonderful night filled with wine, war stories, and a great discussion on the role of foreign correspondents covering conflict. For the recap please go hereRead moreBeware the Ides of March, indeed
This is the time to worry about the world of Capitol Hill and its various political feeder networks. We had a snowstorm, a Friday the 13th, a historic “Pi” day, St. Patrick’s Day and of course the Ides of March. Beware indeed. Lots of planetary and humanistic epicenter tilts to trigger uncertain behavior under andRead moreBipartisanship and the quixotic quest for an olive branch
At the end of January, the lost remains of Miguel de Cervantes, best known to many as the author of Don Quixote, were found. In that great novel, Quixote is the self-imagined knight who sets out to restore chivalry to a modern world. The novel inspired the phrases “tilting at windmills” and “quixotic” for the knight’sRead moreMarco on the Mound
May 2014 The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the feisty Twins that day: The score stood up by one run, with one inning more to play, And then when one A player got to first, and a second did the same, A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game. A straggling fewRead moreWhat Congress needs is a good cigar
I had just found a much better word for the transition in another op-ed and was already leapfrogging to write a “wow” finish when I heard from outside my window “oh-oo-oor, oh-oo-oor, oh-oo-oor.” There on the ledge — as if it were summer — was Coco and some friends, my pigeon buddies. Their feathers buffetedRead moreIndependent and third-party politicians could ease gridlock
In the alternative universe of politics, Capitol Hill should be preparing to greet Matt Funiciello, who on paper and in deed was well-positioned to have won an open House seat in upstate New York. Funiciello was endorsed by the local newspapers, widely acclaimed as being the most in touch with voters, the only one whoRead moreThe Old Geezer Visits Just in Time
As always, my friend the Old Geezer comes to explain the year to me – and perhaps help some of those in my world understand me better (ha not likely) or at least see the world in some different ways: It is always reflective and calm in the Cathedral of St. Matthew. It mayRead more2014 World Team tennis preview
World TeamTennis season only five months away — here is a preview: http://www.10sballs.com/2014/02/13/mylan-world-team-tennis-review-roddick-hingis-querrey-azeranka-playing/Read more
World TeamTennis season only five months away — here is a preview:
http://www.10sballs.com/2014/02/13/mylan-world-team-tennis-review-roddick-hingis-querrey-azeranka-playing/