2012 New Year’s Resolutions
As the New Year approaches, I welcome the opportunity to break from my recent monthly commentary on the causes of…
Category: Political Choices
Loss of Public Trust and Confidence Caused by Corruption
Whether your daily routine starts off by going to get the newspaper, consulting with online news sources or both to…
Corruption Precipitates Crisis in Cofidence
You have to be a “political junkie,” which I apparently am, when you sit, as I often do on many…
Corruption May Explain the Previously Unexplainable
Watching and listening to our elected Congressmen and Senators stumble toward the latest deadline for addressing the immediate “Debt Limit…
Midnight in Paris For Politicians
On Saturday evening, June 25, 2011 in a Bethesda, Maryland movie theatre I witnessed what one reviewer described as “the…
Destructive Partisanship March CanBe Halted
Destructive partisanship in our politics will continue its march and will alternatively deter or consume many of our best and…
Republicans and Democrats as Sunnis and Shiites
A mentor of mine once explained to me his theory of what kinds of people get involved in politics in…
What’s Wrong With Our Broken Political Process?
The Congress of the United States is on a “Break” while the federal government faces the possibility of a “shutdown”…
Cleaning Up Prince George’s County Should Be Top Priority
I adopted the state of Maryland and made my home in Prince George’s County in the Spring of 1970 when…
“Do We Still Believe in the Future?”
In 1953, Bernard Baruch, a financier and Advisor to Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman made…