(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]
a2078466-eb70-4549-965e-b27099eabeb4|0|.0
(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]
e3a752e3-fd60-416c-920c-01aca3c5d9d5|1|5.0
(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]
c5ea9c4e-fff9-4f55-9769-e706536352b8|0|.0
(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]
3e015a4c-3ab5-454a-9781-10941b01b1a3|0|.0
(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]
a5331baa-4444-41de-9f74-4744ed5a059e|1|5.0
(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]
b3b9757b-e2a7-437a-a4d0-174bed6c3075|0|.0
(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]
3919e516-24f3-4fca-b1b0-908234f10603|1|1.0
(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]
dd832d8b-1ee5-4987-90f8-3d6cc5b6bb53|0|.0
(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]
dcefdb00-b01e-461c-a9cd-d64d4b19c435|0|.0
(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]
2525e0d6-9ca1-44c3-b98d-caf05c5b9214|0|.0