May17
Being a banker today must feel like being a good ballplayer or newscaster when Barry Bonds or Fox News gets so much attention. Between exorbitant CEO salaries, ethical scandals, apparent fraud with few consequences, and general economic insecurity, people who run community …
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May14
GOP leaving Republicans behind?
My first political role model was Dwight D. Eisenhower – “Ike.” He was a peace-loving war hero, a Main Street Republican who sent the 101st Airborne to desegregate schools, a free-market guy who appreciated organized labor. When I first …
May10
If you want sure-fire compliments, the choices are pretty much a) retire or b) die.
Highly recommended: a).
When you retire you don’t hear from people who think you’re a fool or a boob, and a party especially is nice – like a visitation only …
May07
As Mothers’ Day approaches, I recall inadvertently insulting my late Mom decades ago, trying to defend a girlfriend’s career goals by criticizing the lack of opportunities for women who stayed home.
“I chose to be a housewife and raise you boys,” she said.…
May03
As this is written, it’s 50 years since arguments were made before the U.S. Supreme Court in “Engel v. Vitale,” which a couple of months later resulted in a clarification of the “separation of church and state.”
As this is written, some Catholic Bishops, …
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