Brad Rourke’s Blog
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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…
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Change, The Real Thing
There is another race that Senator Barack Obama has won hands-down. He’s the only one with a decent logo. The Obama campaign has developed a contained, clear graphic that conveys just about everything most folks feel they need to know. People know Obama’s got good design on his side, too. Next time there’s news of…
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Being Wrong
One recent week, I had occasion to say publicly I’d been wrong — not once but twice. I like to think, each time, that it’ll be the last time I have to do that. But, if past performance is the best predictor of future behavior, then the likelihood is that I will need to publicly…
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White Men Can't Talk
The article by me first appeared in Pajamas Media. There is a priceless moment in Oliver Stone’s unfairly maligned The Doors, when our heroes are prepping to go on the Ed Sullivan Show. They are met by a stage assistant, a real twerp, who informs them that, “The network guys have a problem with one…
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White Men Can’t Talk
The article by me first appeared in Pajamas Media. There is a priceless moment in Oliver Stone’s unfairly maligned The Doors, when our heroes are prepping to go on the Ed Sullivan Show. They are met by a stage assistant, a real twerp, who informs them that, “The network guys have a problem with one…
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The Tyranny Of Leadership
This article by me first appeared in Pajamas Media. The Cub Scout pack that I lead decided, for the first time, to hold a parents’ race at our recent Pinewood Derby. We did it as a fundraiser. My car, while creative (I made it look like a rock), did not do very well in the…
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A Reformed Reformer
This article first appeared in Pajamas Media. Recently, there was a little-noticed gathering of graybeards in Oklahoma, designed to place the political world on notice that things have gotten too partisan. I say little-noticed because, while the collected firepower in the room was sufficient to garner some approving mentions in the press, especially from the…
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