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2016: The Demise of Small-r Republican Politics Nov. 08, 2016
Among the many complaints I have seen about this squalid presidential election — the most dism... Read More
How Should You Vote in November? Part 2 of 2 Oct. 11, 2016
If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, how should you vote in November? In my last two ... Read More
The GOP Should Be Obamacare's Death Panel Oct. 07, 2016
When The New York Times tells you Obamacare is "ailing" and must change to survive, rest assured tha... Read More
How Donald Trump Became the Issue Oct. 05, 2016
On Tuesday night, by consensus, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence wiped the floor wi... Read More
Excuses for Losing Just Don't Cut It Sep. 28, 2016
When Mitt Romney lost in 2012, there was very little discussion of blame. Everyone assumed that Romn... Read More
A Party Double-Cross in Troubled Times Aug. 19, 2016
My Republican friend, Richard J. Cross III, is a talented wordsmith who has just crossed over to the... Read More
Trump Isn't an Easy Decision, and Nobody Should Pretend He Is Aug. 17, 2016
Serious acrimony has now broken out among conservatives regarding whether to vote for Donald Trump. ... Read More
The Party of the People? Aug. 04, 2016
Now that the primary process has concluded, the conventions are over, and the nominations official, ... Read More
Does Either Party Have a Winning Strategy? Not Clear Aug. 02, 2016
What is the campaign strategy for the two political parties? Clues can be had from the responses to ... Read More
If Black Lives Matter, Vote Republican Jul. 27, 2016
If black lives matter — and they surely do — the logical, rational, historical and pract... Read More
Trump Ignites White Working-Class Revolution Jul. 01, 2016
Everyone's looking for what Winston Churchill called a pudding with a theme. How did the likes of Do... Read More
The GOP Must Stand up to Trump Jun. 08, 2016
Republicans should be very worried. Not because the GOP might lose the November presidential electio... Read More
Trump Treads on the Constitution Jun. 03, 2016
Hillary Clinton had a bad week. A scathing report from the State Department's inspector general on C... Read More
Political Parties Wisely Consider Overhauling Primary System May. 31, 2016
As if the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer didn't promise to be contentious enough,... Read More
The Common Good and a Divided Nation We Face in Election May. 31, 2016
A New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted May 13-17 found that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the ... Read More
No Negative Mandate To Govern May. 14, 2016
On the eve of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, I asked former GOP chairman ... Read More
5 Lessons Trump's Nomination Should Teach Republicans May. 11, 2016
We all got it wrong. Everybody who wrote Donald Trump off as a political charlatan destined to flame... Read More
Our View: Warming Planet Worthy of Discussion May. 10, 2016
Our planet is now setting records for setting records about the heat. Earth has set monthly heat rec... Read More
Lewinsky and Trump: I Tremble for My Country May. 10, 2016
The beast did not create Donald Trump; Donald Trump kept the beast alive. Without billions in free a... Read More
An Unmitigated Disaster May. 05, 2016
Republican party leaders may have worried that Donald Trump would not only lose the general election... Read More
