While watching the endless news accounts of town hall meetings on congressional health care plans and the impassioned and often disruptive responses from grass-roots opposition groups, I was overcome by a combination of nostalgia and déjà vu. This is not ...
Read More »The politics behind Sotomayor’s nomination
Many have been spending time in the last few days polishing up on their means of expressing support or disdain for the recent nomination by President Obama of Sonia Sotomayor to the nation’s highest court. At the outset, I offer ...
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Read More »Grass roots, tea parties and local government
In the ebb and flow of politics, we have come upon one of those periods in which we may assess the nation’s political health by examining the grass roots. Perhaps it was the events of the recent “tea parties” that ...
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