Recently I heard for the first time in years Carly Simon's Academy Award winning song from the 80s, "Let the River Run." In light of what is currently going on in Washington, the opening and closing words grabbed me - "Let the river run. Let all...
My local newspaper, considered a "liberal rag" by conservatives, ran in a big, bold feature the results of an Associated Press/GfK Roper Poll conducted on March 3 - 8, 2010 on health care reform. According to this poll, 41% of those polled want...
"A Republic, if you can keep it." Sour grapes after the last election? Hardly. Benjamin Franklin made this statement at the close of the Constitutional Convention in response to a question about the kind of government the Convention was proposing to...