Tag Archives: Donald Trump

What I ponder at the Lincoln Memorial

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

What have I learned in 60 years? Take little for granted, other than that I will (likely) return home from a bike ride. At dawn I took my customary solstice/birthday pilgrimage to the Lincoln Memorial and faced the Washington Monument, … Continue reading →

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A few days in southern Utah . . .

Posted on May 9, 2018 by

. . . where a piece of the Trump administration’s environmental agenda is playing out, and where hordes of Americans (and foreigners) can’t get enough of the West. Fiery Furnace is a mind game

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Denouement of ‘repeal and replace’

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

As societies become more complex, the government (the instrument of our social compact) is called on to do more to arrange commerce – the exchange of goods and services. Market regulation is a necessary component of development, to ensure some … Continue reading →

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The meaning and the drama of Trump’s budget

Posted on March 19, 2017 by

Newt Gingrich lives in President Trump’s first pass at a federal budget. The purpose of a budget – government, corporate or household – is to put vision in numbers. First identify the goals, the strategies to execute them and their … Continue reading →

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The Electoral College: Will no one rid us of this meddlesome relic?

Posted on December 19, 2016 by

On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, the Electoral College is expected to demonstrate not only its uselessness but its destructiveness by choosing for president a candidate who lost the national popular vote by more than 2 … Continue reading →

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‘Change’ vs. our ossified process: It’s no contest

Posted on November 13, 2016 by

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King’s distillation of abolitionist Theodore Parker’s sermon is one of his most famous quotations. It resonates with us because we assume the universe is moral … Continue reading →

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Buchanan, Trump and the high-water mark of the tea party

Posted on July 23, 2016 by

In the summer of 1992, I walked the floor of the Republican National Convention as Pat Buchanan roused the delegates with his “culture war” speech. Embracing the experience as the reporter I was, I felt their fury at having been … Continue reading →

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