(Centennial Fellow) First in the Constitution, then in various laws and such devices as a debt ceiling, we Americans keep trying to keep the federal government from disastrous excess. And our representatives keep backing up -- saying that's OK, overr...
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(Centennial Fellow) Give the left an inch and watch for a thousand miles of hyperbole, as in concluding mainly from a few instances of waterboarding that the United States under George W. Bush became a sadistic, Nazi-style torture haven for no produc...
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(Centennial Fellow) There's hope for America because, down in Florida, we have a wondrously smart federal judge who, unlike so many, still believes in the Constitution's restrictions on federal power. He is even courageously willing to apply them to ...
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(Centennial Fellow) President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, praised deficit reduction while pledging deficit enlargement, coming across like a phony dieter sneaking ice cream. Only he wasn't sneaking it. He was as much as licking th...
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A couple of fairly expensive compact fluorescent light bulbs went kaput in my house after hardly any use. I checked the package and, sure enough, they were made in China. My first thought was that the Chinese need guidance from a W. Edwards Deming eq...
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In the recent rush for civility, for making our political discourse sweet, pure and very nice, let's heed the warning of moderation in all things and not shrink from sentences like the one below. "His speeches left the impression of an army of ...
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Dead birds have lately been falling from the sky all over the place and if you wanted to be as inane in locating a cause as some have been about fault-finding in the tragic Arizona shooting, you would blame the tea party, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Sar...
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(Centennial Fellow) The state's Democratic legislators were "girlie men," Arnold Schwarzenegger stated early in his tenure as governor of California, and you had to laugh and even applaud, because here was a popular, muscular action hero of the movie...
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Decades ago, I was a reporter in Albany, N.Y., working for a newspaper at the foot of a hill that could be ascended only with huffing, puffing, knee endangerment and sweat unless you employed a trick.
It was this. You first went down a flight of sta...
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If you've somehow been in a Rip Van Winkle sleep and have awakened without knowing what season it is, you might catch on by seeing how niceness is suddenly directing traffic or how smiles surround us wherever we go. (Centennial Fellow) Whi...
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