September 19, 2025
Among others, September is National Coupon, National Preparedness, and National Library Card Sign-Up Month…
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September 12, 2025
Earlier this week, my thought was to write about turning 60, what that means in Japanese culture, relate my celebration of Kanreki to French historian Fernand Braudel’s three cycles of history (day-to-day events; paradigm shifts; and longue durée), and finally link those cycles to current political and public policy trends. However, the aftershocks ripping across political Washington of Turning Point USA founder and conservative star Charlie Kirk’s assassination are just too big to ignore.
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September 5, 2025
Yesterday, after breakfast, my wife said to me, “Don’t throw those bags out…I need those bags to put my bags in.”
August 29, 2025
With the 2025-2026 NFL football season kicking off next week, the open question is not whether the Philadelphia Eagles will repeat as Super Bowl champions, whether Baltimore Ravens Quarterback Lamar Jackson can regain his MVP form, or even whether the Dallas Cowboys will finally make their way back to the NFC playoffs…
August 15, 2025
In his autobiography, when discussing how “figures often beguile” him, Mark Twain popularized the phrase “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
August 8, 2025
Thought of the Week As I mentioned last week, Congress is currently on its month-long August recess; coincidentally, yesterday marked the 200th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Rather than focusing on putting out daily policy-related fires, Congressional recesses typically allow government affairs types time to sit back and contemplate some of the grander questions we
August 1, 2025
Last week, I was able to escape the swamp-like conditions of Washington, D.C., and trade them for the near perdition-like temperatures of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. There, I visited our Steel Summit subsidiary and made my way to Nashville for The Conference Board’s quarterly Government Relations Executive Council meeting.
July 18, 2025
Each morning, I receive an email that consolidates links to all of President Trump’s social media posts over the past 24 hours.
July 11, 2025
Questions come in all shapes and forms. Close-ended questions can be answered yes-no or true-false; open-ended questions call for the provision of multiple details; and leading questions guide the listener to provide a specific answer
July 3, 2025
In March 1992, then presidential candidate Bill Clinton famously told an activist who was heckling him at a rally, “I feel your pain.” Later in the campaign, the Arkansas Governor was able to project that sentiment to a nationwide audience during a presidential town hall debate.