A fiscal conservative, socially semi-liberal, Geoff Caldwell has been following politics for over 30 years. He is a mid-life Midwesterner just trying to make sense of an all too often nonsensical world.
Think you're overtaxed? Think your tax dollars get wasted? Think those tax dollars should go for actual services provided rather than political activism? Well the good news is, you're in the majority, the bad news is...
To borrow from Mr. Dickens: “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times….” We were a nation on one hand mourning the loss of our soul after the tragedy of J...
The politics of NCAA division one athletics has shown itself quite unseemly over the years. And perhaps one of the most unseemly events is the recent greed driven defection of Colorado and Nebraska from the Big 12 conference.
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The Kansas school districts that comprise the “Schools for Fair Funding” group has voted to file yet another law-suite against the Kansas legislature to force more money from Kansas taxpayers.Lori Yount reports in the Wichita Eagle...
Helen Thomas is now on record telling Jews in Israel to “Go Home” but we are still awaiting her wisdom on where blacks and Hispanics should go.Outside a White House Jewish history month celebration Thomas...
While President Obama and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer were meeting Thursday to discuss immigration issues, Mexico was busy doing its best to subvert existing U.S. law.OPINION:The news reports are that there basically is no news to report...
While more and more of the Gulf of Mexico bleeds oil, hundreds of new miles of shoreline threatened, and an entire eco-system in imminent danger, President Obama took a break yesterday evening to host Sir Paul McCartney...
Pondering the bureaucracy and blame pointing that has become the gulf oil spill, The Corner wondered how history would have unfolded differently were it Barack Obama’s government in charge that fateful day, December 7th, 1941.COMMENTARY:In response...
Answers to the command and control problems that have been plaguing the Obama White House over the BP oil spill may have finally presented themselves.COMMENTARY:In an attempt to learn from lessons of the past, a senior White House...
On this Memorial Day, 2010, every fallen, known or unknown should be remembered, thanks given and prayers said for them, those left behind, and the millions still serving.This column originally appeared in print in the Sunday...