Even if I disagree with most everything he says, it will be nice to have a skilled orator representing our nation on the world stage.
If McCain’s campaign had been as gracious as his concession speech, the election outcome might have been different.
The fact that Ted Stevens appears to be on the verge of re-election is [...]
Politicians from both major parties make a habit of claiming credit for any fortunate occurrence during their time in office, and of denying responsibility for anything that goes wrong. Since President Clinton had the good fortune to preside over a period of unprecedented prosperity, it’s only natural that the Democrats take credit for the strength [...]
On his final day in office, will George W. Bush grant pardons with the same shameless audacity as Bill Clinton?
It doesn’t take a crystal ball at this point to predict the outcome of tomorrows election. Absent a minor miracle, Senator Obama will become the next President of the United States. What his election really means in terms of the expressed political sentiment of the voters requires closer examination.
Even the most diehard GOP loyalists [...]
As we enter the final days of the longest presidential campaign season in history, polls indicate that the race is tightening. In spite of the last minute waffling of a handful of voters, the reality is that the GOP will need a miracle to pull off a victory. McCain’s projected defeat represents another lost opportunity [...]
The street we live on is famous throughout the Roanoke Valley for being a great place for trick or treaters. It’s the kind of place parents drop off kids by the carload from other parts of town. Residents of the two block stretch of Stanley Avenue between 24th and 26th street will have upwards [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the son of Senator Ted Stevens making a lucrative career out of trading on his father’s name. The case of Ben Stevens is remarkable since he truly had nothing to offer his clients other than access to his dad. In return for this access, he was paid millions of dollars in [...]
Now that Senator Ted Stevens has been found guilty of lying about gifts from oil industry executives, it will be interesting to see whether federal prosecutors will finally go after his son. As the longest serving Republican in Senate history, the 84 year old Stevens is the poster boy for political corruption. While other politicians [...]
I wrote an article in April predicting program cuts at Virginia Tech as a result of the $11 million settlement with the families of the shooting victims. Today the Roanoke Times is reportingthat the college is facing a budget shortfall and planning to cut a total of $11.2 million from academic and cooperative extension programs. [...]
Every few years a proposal is put forward to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, or to scrap the entire federal tax code and start from scratch. The plans that have received the most consideration in recent memory were the Flat Tax proposal put forth by Steve Forbes, and more recently, the Fair Tax, which was [...]