Problems, like grapes, come in bunches. The world would be a more organized, better place if we only had to solve one problem at a time.
We’re in the middle of bailing out our financial institutions, and now we are told that if we don’t do something similar for the auto industry, Bad Things will happen. [...]
Confused by this? It was written yesterday, and will be published tomorrow in Citizen News. You’re not stuck in a time warp.
Election Day is behind us, and I hope by now we know who won. I wouldn’t blame the winner if he called for a recount, given what’s facing him in the next four years.
The [...]
There’s one good thing you can say about the financial crisis our country finds itself in: it is time for all parties to come together to solve this problem.
Republican senator and presidential candidate John McCain said that. So did Democratic senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
There were other things they and other politicians said and [...]
From where I sit, being President of the United States looks like a tough job. There are lots of decisions to make, each of which can have all sorts of wide-ranging, terrible repercussions.
All I have to do as a voter is make one decision. But that one decision is not easy. The campaigns have tried [...]
I didn’t plan on watching a lot of the Olympics, but the Michael Phelps story drew me in. I wanted to see whether Phelps could accomplish what he was setting out to do: win eight gold medals in swimming. So often, these Olympic stories are only so much hype, used to build interest and draw [...]