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September 12, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

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

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

Yesterday, after breakfast, my wife said to me, “Don’t throw those bags out…I need those bags to put my bags in.”

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August 1, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

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.

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May 30, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By Stephen Pitalo

Memorial Day is a time for deep reflection. My father was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, Congress recognizes the holiday with a weeklong recess, and even President Trump slow rolled his schedule for the better part of this week.

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May 23, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

What do Ted Williams, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky all have in common? That they were the greatest players of all time in baseball, basketball, and hockey, respectively? A good guess, but another answer might be that each was also a terrible head coach or general manager.

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May 9, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

My wife and I just returned from a vacation to the British Virgin Islands (BVI). There we sailed the islands Christopher Columbus “discovered” during his second voyage to the Americas in 1493.

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Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) and Title Page of What is Seen and What is Not Seen (July 1850)

April 25, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

There is the seen and the unseen. In Washington, Congress can quite literally be seen in action when it is in session. But when it’s in recess, like it has been for the past two weeks, Capitol Hill is somewhat of a ghost town. In economics one can also find the seen and the unseen

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April 11, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

It’s spring break in Washington. Climb Capitol Hill, ride the Metro, or visit the National Mall, and you’re bound to see packs of teenagers in identical t-shirts roving the cityscape.

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April 4, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

The morning of what President Trump referred to as “Liberation Day,” I found myself sitting at a conference room table across from a member of Congress and his Chief of Staff. The meeting had been scheduled several weeks prior as way to provide businesses with a progress report on the status of the reconciliation bill, tax policy, and deregulation.

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March 28, 2025

Leave a Comment / Politics / By James D. Winslow

In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens wrote that “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” How right he was. Consider that it’s March Madness, and while my team Maryland made it to the “Sweet 16,” they had to face Number 1 Florida to advance. They didn’t.

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