It seemed impossible after the U.S. Congress passed the Twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution back in 1947… Never again was a president supposed to be able to serve more than two terms in office. Yet, miraculously, George W. Bush is just about to wrap up term number three. How did he manage this feat? It’s…
Imagine that you’re standing outside on the street, in the bitter cold of the night, dressed in your pajamas. In horror, you’re watching your home engulfed in flames. Imagine that the fire fighters have arrived, and with them are all the trucks, hoses, and other equipment required to start attacking the fire. You know a…
I’ve been a bit hard on Warren Buffett in some of my past columns. It’s not that I don’t respect the man. The amount of his wealth that he’s committed to charities is alone worthy of endless praise. There’s just something downright frustrating about having one of the country’s greatest business minds at our president’s…
A few years back, I read a great book entitled Scratch Beginnings. It was written by a young man named Adam Shepard who told of his experiences while conducting an extensive, self-immersed experiment to determine whether or not the American Dream was still alive in this country. Shepard had grown frustrated by the whining, complaining,…
On election night, the moment that Bill O’Reilly stated on FOX News that the “white establishment is now the minority”, I knew the mainstream media would latch onto that quote and not let go. I knew they would completely disregard the point he was trying to make, and attribute his concerns to that of people’s…
On Wednesday, President Obama gave his first press conference in eight months. In between hard-hitting questions about global warming and whether or not the president has spoken to Mitt Romney since election night, one member of the White House press corps actually managed to squeeze in a question about the administration’s public response to the…
Last Friday, NBC News’ Brian Williams interviewed a number of Hispanics to find out why it is that President Obama did so well with their demographic in last week’s presidential election. A man named Salvador, who has a successful career and lives in Wichita, Texas, was one of the interviewees. He was born in Mexico…
When President Obama won re-election last Tuesday, it was hard pill for many people to swallow. Though the vast majority of Romney supporters knew all along that the race would be tight, and there was a good chance Obama could win, they still felt like they had been punched in the stomach when the bad…