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Iowa, New Hampshire, and beyond

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 12:12 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) Oh, what a relief it was when actual voters- normal human beings- began to cast real ballots!  After fourteen months of the punditocracy telling us what voters would do, should do, or might do based more on Inside the Be... [More]
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Athens to Rome by Sea: Ruminating on the Ruins

Monday, 19 December 2011 14:40 by Bill Moloney
(Rome)  If one would conjure in imagination what Gibbon called the “Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome” a worthwhile approach is to set sail upon Homer’s “wine dark sea” and in select ports of call... [More]
Categories:   Europe | History
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Rumblings from the voters in 'wrong-track' America

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:35 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) After suffering the only defeat of his long political career in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, election the young “Tip” O’Neill was flabbergasted to learn that his own barber had voted for his op... [More]
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Crossing Canada by rail, we had a window on history

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 11:34 by Bill Moloney
(Vancouver) Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the French for the bargain basement price of fifteen million dollars in 1803 is one of the most stunning exercises of Presidential authority in our history.  Yet whe... [More]
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Despite pundits' scorn, Tea Party won big

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 12:39 by Bill Moloney
(Nantucket)The 18th century English political sage Edmund Burke wrote that the vigor of any society can be measured by the “balance between its impulses of innocence and decadence”.  He further noted that when that balance tilts deci... [More]
Categories:   Deficits & debt | Tea Party
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Blue-state liberals have the blues

Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:36 by Bill Moloney
(Dateline: Boston) When Lord Cornwallis marched his defeated British Army out of Yorktown in 1781 after surrendering to George Washington he regarded this turn of events as so unthinkable that he ordered his regimental bands to play an old music hall... [More]
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Why does US recruit teachers from bottom third of class?

Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:50 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) As the hard-won accomplishment that is SB-191 moves deliberately towards fulfillment, it is important to remember that however admirable, it is but a single element in the more comprehensive challenge of improving teacher quality.... [More]
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2012 Election: It's Still the Economy, Stupid

Sunday, 22 May 2011 10:24 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) The President has scored a stunning foreign policy triumph.  The country rejoices.  Praise for the President’s leadership and the prowess of those soldiers he sent in harm’s way is bi-partisan and near univer... [More]
Categories:   Obama | Politics
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Changing Political Landscape of the New South

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:35 by Bill Moloney
(Hilton Head, S.C.) Apparently unimpressed by the rumpled charm of GOP candidate Wendell Wilkie and untroubled that FDR was challenging the two term tradition set by George Washington, South Carolinians in 1940 gave Roosevelt a thunderous 96 % of the... [More]
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Cut spending or go broke: America's existential moment

Tuesday, 15 March 2011 15:53 by Bill Moloney
(Centennial Fellow) In arguably the most colossal political blunder of the 20th century Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States three days after Pearl Harbor based on his fatal underestimation of America’s prodigious capacity for war pro... [More]