LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP
I will be in Washington, D.C., the week of April 7 with 60 Health Care UST MBA students. This is my 19th D.C. seminar for our 19thUST MBA cohort, which keeps getting larger each year. We have a health policy seminar faculty of 28 this year, all experienced Washington hands from Congress and the Executive branch and all the influences thereon. We are fortunate to always strike a balance among the experienced and … Continue reading »
Posted April 8, 2013 in: Featured |
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HOLY WEEK
“I shall make my home above them; I shall be their God, and they will be my people.”. . . The Jewish prophet Ezekiel 37-27
“God cannot be understood; he cannot be grasped by the human mind. The truth escapes our human capacities. The only way to come close to it is by a constant emphasis on the limitation of our human capacities to “have” or to “hold” the truth. We can neither explain God … Continue reading »
Posted March 27, 2013 in: Featured |
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SPENDING CLIFF POLITICSPresident Obama’s new treasury secretary, Jack Lew, in his confirmation hearing last month, told senators: “The short-term, deadline-driven practices that we have seen over the last couple years are undermining our economy. It is the first time in my nearly 30 years in public service that I felt the actions of government were actually working against the goal of getting the economy moving.”Public opinion polls show that 81% of Americans disapprove of the … Continue reading »
Posted March 11, 2013 in: Featured |
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VALENTINE’S DAY 2013
This comes during an historic week in which, among other events, Pope Benedict XVI became the first head of the Catholic Church to resign his office since 1415. And for reasons everyone seems to have applauded. To Catholics and others who are Christians there is an often quoted description of love in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians chapter 12:31-13:13 which was part of the February 3rd liturgy this year. No one has … Continue reading »
Posted February 14, 2013 in: Featured |
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SOMETHING HAS GONE TERRIBLY WRONG . . .
…when the biggest threat to an American economy is the American Congress.”. . . Senator Joe Mancin (D-WV). Mancin’s West Virginia colleague Jay Rockefeller announced he would not run for re-election in 2014. So did another five-term Democrat, Tom Harkin of Iowa, and Republican Saxby Chambliss of Georgia.
House Republicans made a practical political decision to give their colleagues in the Senate a chance to define the deficit-reduction path … Continue reading »
Posted February 5, 2013 in: Featured, Uncategorized |
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WE ARE STILL UP ON THE FISCAL CLIFF
Over the weekend, I noticed that President Obama and Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and John Boehner had come to important conclusions about the tax bill they passed into law last week. The president believes they agreed to modify the expiring Bush tax rates to preserve lower rates for middle-income Americans (those below $400,000 of adjusted gross income per year) and modify the expired increases for the top income … Continue reading »
Posted January 16, 2013 in: Featured, Uncategorized |
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NEW WORLD ORDERHow would you like to have Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Ayatollah Khamenei, Binyamin Netanyahu, Hamas, Al-Qaeda of you-name-the-country, the Syrian “rebels,” “President” Morsi, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Cong. Darrell Issa, the Catholic Bishops and the federalist society lawyers, the 2016 presidential wannabes, a 24/7 opinion rant, and the next “shooter” on your action screen every day? Oh if life in the White House would be as simple as that 3 a.m. … Continue reading »
Posted December 21, 2012 in: Featured |
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Representative Government Works
Nothing was as devastating to representative government in the last four years as U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s pledge that his party would make President Obama a one-term president. Americans knew they were in trouble by the time Obama took office. At times of crisis we come together as a nation. In retrospect, it is clear that every elected Republican everywhere in the country, at every level of government took the … Continue reading »
The Debate That Set the Tone“WHAT was starting to seem like a boringly foregone conclusion came alive on the night of October 3rd. In the first of America’s three presidential debates, an affable and unruffled Mitt Romney outclassed Barack Obama. The president looked and sounded tired, and failed to mount anything remotely resembling a clear defense of his four years in office, let alone an inspiring vision for the four to come.”A quote from The … Continue reading »
Posted October 15, 2012 in: Featured |
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THE SUPREME COURT DECISION
Will go down in history not because it alters the course of either public policy or appellate jurisprudence. It’s neither Dred Scott nor Brown v. Board of Education. It’s not Bush v. Florida or Citizens United v. FEC. The Chief Justice of the United States decided it was not the job of the highest court in the land to make law when the Congress already had. Justice Roberts turned out to be more the constitutional conservative than his … Continue reading »
Posted July 6, 2012 in: Featured |
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