2008 Not 1968
“The Economist” magazine, a British based publication, comments on U.S. economics and politics at their intersection from an international perspective reflecting…
Category: Political Choices
Judicial Evaluations and Retention Elections- The Key to Judicial Accountability
Well, not withstanding almost unanimous editorial endorsements, the leadership of Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, the high profile visit…
Political Theater Need Not Be Children’s Theater
As different worlds collide in our state and country, indeed in the world, I keep thinking of what I consider…
Chicago Style, Politics Gets Things Done
Last week we witnessed the inauguration of a new president and with him “a new era of responsibility.” A few years…
Choose Your President and His Advisers Carefully
The improved economic outlook that I hoped for in my last column clearly has not come and in fact is…
Campaign’s and Candidates’ Messages Clash
The events of the past two weeks have exposed to an even greater extent than before how the manner in…
Economic Crisis Necessitates Leadership Which Rises Above Mistrust and Anger of Constituents
As I write this column, the Congress of the United States in its hopefully tentative lack of collective wisdom (at…
McCain Opts out of Meaningful Debate on Global and Domestic Economic Issues
The Editor of the Daily Record assigned the headline to my last column of “If it ever was, Reaganomics is no…
Is this a “Change Election”?
Columnist Robert J. Samuelson recently described as one of our “fondest political myths” that elections allow us to collectively settle…
Political Theatre Presages Idealistic Faith versus Money and Guns
In my May 2, 2008 Column, I ended my commentary on “Decision-making Style Makes and Breaks Presidents” by suggesting that…