Op-Ed: Let's Take Leno's Advice
Region: New YorkI don't think I have watched Jay Leno in at least five years, nor do I watch Letterman - except for when he went afterJohn McCain during the campaign. I did have to tune in this past week, however, when the President... more
Views: 368Rush Limbaugh - Historian???
Region: New YorkWell, after a long break - since I was kind of pleased with the way things were going, politically at least - it is time to break my silence and start shooting off my mouth again. Note the below quote from that great... more
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Democrats and Sarah Palin
Region: New YorkOK. At the risk of turning off many of my Democratic friends, I’ll say it. Though I would not have been really happy, I could have lived with John McCain and a McCain administration. I had seen McCain on ... more
Views: 415"Surge?" What's a "Surge"?
Region: New YorkI have heard all four candidates say, on a number of occasions, that “the Surge” worked in Iraq. McCain says it proudly, as a former military man, especially one who has been a full fledged supporter of the war... more
Views: 386Elite and Elitist - Not bad things, perhaps.
Region: New YorkSo when did “elite” become a bad word or a bad thing? Merriam-Webster defines “elite” as: the choice part : cream, or the best of a class. Is that so bad? I checked the dicti... more
Views: 586McCain’s Answering of “the call” Let’s get real for a minute.
Region: New YorkOne of the speeches at the GOP convention - it may have been Cindy McCain’s (you know, John’s second wife - the one he was running around with while his semi-invalid first wife was raising his kids) contained t... more
Views: 372Family values - not McCain/Palin
Region: New YorkI keep promising myself that I will not write, or even talk about, this election campaign anymore. I am overdosing with anti-McCain and very anti-Palin conversations and e-mails. But....then, I read something n... more
Views: 423This Has to Stop - McCain/Palin is out of control!
Region: New YorkThe McCain campaign is out of control. The misrepresentations -- no, lets call it what it is -- the lies, particularly about Sarah Palin, have to stop. It is now so apparent to anyone with a brain that the McCain peo... more
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Must Presidents be Folksy?
Region: New YorkWhy do Americans get so upset when their candidates - or their Presidents - are not "folksy" enough? I read how Obama looks uncomfortable drinking a "Bud" with blue collar guys at an American Legion post, or how Hillary an... more
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Jeremiah Wright - A Closet Republican Perhaps?
Region: New York
Jeremiah Wright, a closet Republican and a McCain supporter? Absurd, right. Well, maybe not. It’s obvious that Rev. Wright does not want his former congregant, Barack Obama, to be the Democratic nom... more
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I am a native New Yorker, although I lived in the Boston area for a number of years as well as in northern New Jersey. A graduate of Queens College (CUNY) with a BA in Political Science & History, I went on to Boston University, graduating from BU Law School in 1972. After practicing Employment Law in Boston, NJ and NY for almost thirty years, I changed careers, returned to school to earn a Masters in Education, and now teach History, Political Science and Employment Law as an Adjunct Professor at Mercy College. I am employed full time as a High School Social Studies teacher at a district in Westchester. I am married and have two sons. One graduated from college last spring and will be going on to grad school in the fall, and the other is graduating from college next year.
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