As urban legend has it, president-elect Joe Biden chose retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin for defense secretary for two reasons. It’s the second reason that I am going to talk about. When they first met 12 years ago in Iraq,...
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Blame it on the Bossa Nova was a 1963 hit single for Eydie Gorme. She didn’t want to record it, she even sang off pitch on purpose to discourage her record label from releasing it. Yet it became her most...
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Wayne Newton called me one night. I was in high school, I was home alone, and Wayne Newton called. At a horse show there is something called a rotating trophy. You win it one year and have to return it...
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I suppose there are always two ways to look at any issue. I struggle to find two ways to look at precautions for COVID. First, I am glad to confess that I am a big fan of cancel culture. I...
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I have a small office. I am not the federal government or a large company. But I have seen first-hand how a rough transition hurts everyone. Several years ago I was interviewing for a new assistant. One candidate applied who...
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Election night is bigger than the Super Bowl and the World Series . . . maybe even if you combined them. It’s bigger because we are all apart of it. We are not spectators cheering a first down or a...
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I am Excited to be One of EIGHT. There was the Chicago 7 and now I am one of Debate Night 8. Mark Halperin is a nationally recognized pundit. You can hear him weigh in on political issues on some talk shows...
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I thought carefully about how I would vote this year. I decided early voting would be my choice. I actually did the same thing in 2016. My thinking then and now was the same: if I was hit by a...
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You say you are a professional. Pre-Covid, you were probably right. What about in a Covid world – how would you rate your degree of professionalism on a daily basis? You may remember the old Hollywood Squares with Whoopi Goldberg...
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You don’t have to be a student of history to know something about the Kennedy-Nixon debates. There is also a good chance that you heard about the “You sir are no JFK” line from the Bentsen v Quayle debate, and...
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