It started with a single email on a single column: “Although it’s getting harder all the time, I’ve always said as long as there are voices like yours, our country will make it. Hang in there,Geoff, & thanks. Jan Burnidge” Over the years, that single email turned into hundreds and a friendship more valued...
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Election 2016: Of Lasts, Firsts and What If’s
If for nothing else, the year 2016 will go down in the annals of American politics as historic. It marks the last year of the history making Obama administration, the first year that a major political party nominated a woman to be their Presidential nominee, and the year that out of a nation of...
Forget Trump, how about Eastwood 2016?
For the September print edition of Esquire magazine, Michael Hainey has the interview of a lifetime; Father Clint and son Scott of the Eastwood clan. With 56 years separating them, you’d think a giant generation gap and chasms of difference right? Wrong. Their confluence of commonality is absolutely amazing. Clint talks of learning from...
Hillary must deny history to make history
In the past two weeks, the Republic party nominated an outsider that vanquished 16 others with decades of political experience and the Democrats became the first major political party to nominate a woman for the Presidency of the United States. Both historic moments, but the award for most energetic denial of reality and shoveling...
Hillary comes full circle
It was 2 a.m. in a London apartment that I first saw the signs of the 1994 Republican wave that was to sweep across one U.S. Congressional district after another. Scrolling across the bottom of the flickering 13” screen was a victory check mark indicating that previously unknown Boeing contract administrator Todd Tiahrt had...