Politics

October 6, 2023

My grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy as Benito Mussolini’s brand of fascism swept across the country in the first half of the 20th century. It was their journey to America that offered me the privilege of growing up with Italian grandparents in the house; we were the only family on my street who had multi-generations living under the same roof. Having emigrated from small towns in the Abruzzi region, my grandparents didn’t speak much English.

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September 29, 2023

Do you remember the television show Early Edition? Set in Chicago, the character played by Kyle Chandler would receive a copy of the newspaper the day before it was actually published. Chandler’s character would then use the information in the paper to prevent tragic events. My wife’s good friend was a writer on the series, and he even named a minor character, Detective Winslow, after us.

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President Clinton, President Bush, and third wheel candidate H. Ross Perot

September 15, 2023

Dating back to the early 19th century, and based on the idea that there are two wheels on a bicycle, the idiom being “a third wheel” is used to indicate situations when someone would be a burden, unnecessary, and/or an unwelcomed member of a group. The saying is commonly used in situations when there is one couple, and a third person, or “third wheel,” would be the odd person out by not fitting in. U.S. politics is dominated by the two-party system, and at times, each Party, Republican and Democrat, have viewed third-party presidential candidates as “third wheels.”

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September 1, 2023

I have a friend who owns a corporate novelty company; the kind that sells t-shirts, baseball caps, coffee mugs, and the like. Among his biggest clients are the gift shops and news stands at Union Station, Reagan National, and IAD where he’s sold a variety of politically themed items over the years. In fact, his sales have been so good that they allowed him to correctly predict the winner of every presidential election from 1988-2016.

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August 25, 2023

According to some surveys, just over one-third (37%) know their Representative’s name, and just over half (56%) of Americans could guess their Representative’s party affiliation; only about two in five (42%) could name at least one local member of Congress; one-third couldn’t name their governor; and 77% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 could not name one senator from his or her home state.

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August 18, 2023

According to some surveys, just over one-third (37%) know their Representative’s name, and just over half (56%) of Americans could guess their Representative’s party affiliation; only about two in five (42%) could name at least one local member of Congress; one-third couldn’t name their governor; and 77% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 could not name one senator from his or her home state.

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