I first started as a lobbyist…for Quaker Oats…in 1964 and continued until retirement in 1991. The beautiful thing about that job was the first day I started the CEO asked me to tell them what the company should be lobbying for or against. I drew up a list which, surprisingly, squared with my conservative values…and theirs. First, the company should lobby against high price supports in the farm bill which would cut the cost of the grain they bought but also coincided with consumer interest.
Second, it should oppose creation of …

Back in 1979, before GDP growth had turned negative, Alfred Kahn, President Carter’s Chief Economist made a professional faux pas. He uttered the “R” word within earshot of the national press. Higher-ups in the White House quickly put the hammer to Dr. Kahn, suggesting that he never use the “R” word again.
To his credit, Alfred Kahn did not back down. He announced that from then on he would refer to the recession as a “banana.” He then began to say things like, “I think we are …

“Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great?”
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene ii, by William Shakespeare
Given the fact that Barack Obama is the official licensed candidate from the
Oprah Book Club who conducts his campaign rallies like a evangelist leading
a revival in a rented tent, I fully expect him to adopt “Brother Love’s
Traveling Salvation Show“ as his theme song, provided that Neil Diamond will
grant him the musical rights. I have listened long and loud to “the Platitude
Dude” for months on end and …

“Mom, Dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins sobbed in private, but made it through the Thanksgiving weekend without letting vivacious, popular, smart-as-a-whip, 6-year-old Zach know about the incurable, neurodegenerative disease he has, or the cruel expectation that it will cripple him before it kills him.”
So began a November 2001 article by Daily Herald columnist Burt Constable. The article went on to say:
“All Zach knows is that he isn’t as good at playing goalie as some kids on his soccer team, and that his shaky handwriting was the only blemish (C- …