Category: politics
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Cruising For A Bruising
The groups poised to capitalize on president-elect Obama’s sympathy for their causes — are liable to be sorely disappointed. Peter Levine points this out here. Now comes word that pro-life pastor Rick Warren will be delivering the Inaugural invocation. And here is the disappointment (outrage, really). So many people have poured so much of what…
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How Will Civic Groups Stay In The Game?
Monday night, a decent and good proposal for a new source of affordable housing in my neighborhood got defeated in our town’s City Council. I was personally in favor of it and spoke in favor of it (which a rarely do). In fact, fifty of my neighbors spoke one way or another on it —…
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Two Hours Of Facebook
President-elect Obama’s much-vaunted speechwriter, Jon “not that one” Favreau, has been all over the blogosphere for the last week. Seems the 27-year-old got himself photographed at a recent party in an unfortunate position with a life sized cardboard cutout of the next Secretary of State. (That’s Favreau on the left. The guy in the hat…
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Deranged
I had know about it for some time, but I was first confronted with The Syndrome in 2004. I had penned a column — which in most respects was carefully balanced — that included critical statements of Democratic candidate John Kerry and praised President Bush on some point. The piece did not include any contact…
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What If It Were More Than An Infomercial?
This article by me first appeared in Pajamas Media. If you are reading this, you are not the target of Senator Obama’s 30-minute media buy. Which surely means, since I am writing, that neither am I the target. Good thing, too — I was disappointed. Oh, sure, my eyes teared up at the right moments,…
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Main Street: Already Lost
I am not sure who is going to win this year’s presidential election campaign, but I already know who the loser will be. It’s the same sap who’s come out on the short end for the last two decades and more: the person on Main Street. Wait, you say. Hasn’t this election begun to turn…
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Google Me.
This article by me first appeared in Pajamas Media. Senator John McCain’s campaign has “abruptly canceled” a fundraiser that had been set to take place at the home of a Texas oilman. The host, Clayton Williams, had run for governor against Ann Richards back in 1990 and, during the campaign, unfortunately at one point compared…
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What I Would Say To Eliot
This article by me first appeared in Pajamas Media. I wonder what I would say to Eliot Spitzer if he were my neighbor. Watching his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, in that first hastily-called press conference, I thought to myself, That’s a deep wound he’s left. Eliot Spitzer apparently took extraordinary actions to get what he…
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Paying For Health Care In America
I wanted to share a project that I have been working on with my friends at the Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forums. I’m quite excited about it. It’s a new issue book called Paying For Health Care in America: How Can We Make It More Affordable? I’ve finished the “issue brief” and am…
Brad Rourke 