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Marc YachtMarch 23, 2015

Joseph Nye Welch was the head counsel for the United States Army under investigation during Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s, Army-McCarthy hearings. McCarthy had just grilled a young Harvard lawyer when Welch commented to McCarthy: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness…. Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 5, 2015

Four years ago, I wrote a piece looking at how Florida stacked up to the other battleground states, a piece I wrote that one largely in response to a bunch of reporter calls questioning Florida’s swing state status. At least we are past that debate. This piece is largely an update to that one, looking at […]

Guest AuthorOctober 14, 2014

The United States is in the middle of a devastating epidemic of “Obsessive CEO Syndrome” (OCS). It’s a debilitating condition in which victims are deluded into thinking that the chosen people at the top of organization charts have the best minds, all the answers to all of our problems, and, should they choose to abandon the rarefied air of […]

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