- The president buzzed the Daytona 500 in Air Force One and then took a lap around the track in his presidential limo. Like him or hate him, the man knows how to play to his voter base.
- Why is the president proposing that technical school funding be doubled? It may be a smart move politically but may flunk the sniff test of whether it’s something government should be doing in the first place.
- There’s a tendency to think that federal overreach is a fairly recent phenomenon when, in reality, it started with seemingly innocent consolidation of power more than 200 years ago.
- Who remembers when “I Love Lucy” episodes had to be screened by a priest, a pastor and a rabbi before airing? It sounds like a joke but it wasn’t. In a similar fashion, we have our own societal “screeners” today and they’re much more dogmatic than their religious counterparts.
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