As they say, the people have spoken, and the republic still stands, albeit at least as confused politically as it has ever been. I didn’t like many of the election outcomes, but I continue to be grateful that we have this great privilege, and that the great American experiment carries on.  Here are my thoughts. […]

I wasn’t going to comment on this subject until the weeklong media commemorative of the first anniversary of the U. S. Capitol riot droned on into a second week, highlighted by asinine comments by President Biden and Vice President Harris, and I couldn’t resist.  Their characterizations that there is currently a “dagger at the throat […]

As I write, the results of the gubernatorial race in Virginia are not final.  The polls going into election day were very tight, and if the Republican Glenn Youngkin defeats the Democrat Terry McAuliffe or even comes very close in a deep blue state, it will be an earthquake, the beginning of the post-Biden campaign, […]

We know big government does not have all the answers.  We know there’s not a program for every problem…….The era of big government is over.—President Bill Clinton, State of the Union Speech, January 23, 1996 Well, Joe Biden obviously didn’t get the memo, and what he has laid out over the past several weeks and […]

If I was writing this essay six weeks ago, it would have had a much different tone.  Coming out of election day in early November, it was reasonably clear that President Trump had narrowly lost re-election but in the process had enough coattails to avoid a mandate by Joe Biden and any kind of “blue […]

As we look forward to the Christmas season and to close out this wild and crazy year, here are some final thoughts on the election. First, a memo to President Trump: It’s over. Pick up the phone, call Joe Biden, concede, and wish him well.  Then deliver a well-crafted concession speech to the country.   […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put it best on the Senate floor: “Let’s not have any lectures about how the President should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election”. I agree completely and would add this:  Trump owes […]

Consider this assessment of the election results by Van Jones of CNN on election night: I think a lot of Democrats are hurt tonight.  We wanted to see a repudiation of this direction for the country.  And the fact that it’s this close, I think…it hurts; it just hurts.  There’s the moral victory, and there’s […]

After all of the dynamics that have informed this election year in an historic dimension, it was difficult to imagine anything more to add to the perfect storm that this process has become.  Wrong.  Now we have a President in the midst of a pandemic who has tested positive for the coronavirus, and who knows […]

As we move into Labor Day I have no exceptional polling analysis suggesting who might win in November, but I suspect the Trump/Biden race is closer than current polling would have us believe.  And I didn’t spend a lot of time watching either one of the virtual party conventions.  My intuition is that the Republican […]