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The Day After Election Day
Yesterday was Election Day here in New York City, as it was in other cities and states, including New Jersey and Virginia. I voted, as I have in every general election since I turned eighteen.My wife and I showed up at the polls around 2:45. There wa...
LoveFest in the Garden
You can read what the professionals have written in USA Today and the New York Times.Here is what I heard, saw and experienced Sunday night in Madison Square Garden.My wife and I has $19.19 seats in the nosebleed section behind the stage, section 418...
What ‘s So Special About the First Hundred Days?
I had been planning to blog about my assessment of President Obama’s first one hundred days in office. I decided not to post my reflections Wednesday morning because I wanted to first hear and read how the political pundits assessed his record. T...
Obama’s First International Crisis?
Did the Somali pirates holding the American captain of an American flagged commercial ship qualify as an international crisis? Whether or not it did, I am impressed with how our President handled the situation.First, he did not say a lot about it. He...
President Obama receives a "B"
The grading period is over and grades are in. Six readers responded to my unscientific and unrepresentative poll and assigned a grade to President Obama after his first month in office. Four readers awarded our President an “A”. One assigned h...
President Obama addresses Congress
President Obama addressed the Congress last night, and via prime time television the American people. I was busy providing officer’s training to an incoming class of church officers and missed most of the speech, catching only the last few minutes...
