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Stepping Up to the Microphone Jul. 18, 2025
When I was working full time as a professional speaker and make-believe celebrity, people would ask ... Read More
A Good Day and a Bad Night at the Pseudonymous Resort May. 23, 2025
As a speaker, my life involved getting paid to go to places where other people vacationed. Still, I ... Read More
How I Manage to Afford Santa Barbara Mar. 07, 2025
The aptitude test my high school guidance counselor gave me yielded a long, singularly unappealing l... Read More
Will Speaker Johnson Balance the Budget? Nov. 29, 2023
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has posted on his congressional website what he calls "The ... Read More
Mr. Speaker, No Time To Abandon Policy That Made America Great Nov. 01, 2023
I was gratified to learn that Mike Johnson, the newly elected Republican speaker of the House of Rep... Read More
Mike Johnson: I Ain't Did Nothin' Oct. 31, 2023
Like the phrase "I never saw her before in my life" and "I swear I won't touch the stuff," the sente... Read More
In a Normal Party, the New House Speaker's Jan. 6 Role Would Be Disqualifying Oct. 30, 2023
Wednesday's split-screen news cycle presented an ironic juxtaposition regarding the current state of... Read More
Can a New Speaker Reinstate an Old Norm? Oct. 27, 2023
After a little more than three weeks, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. He's Mike Jo... Read More
TV News Warns About the New 'Extremist' Speaker Oct. 27, 2023
The good news for Republicans is they finally elected a new speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. The ... Read More
Biden Defends Democracy While House Republicans Have a Political Food Fight Oct. 24, 2023
Americans last week were presented with a real-time demonstration of the stark contrast between resp... Read More
A Divided -- and Rudderless -- U.S. House Oct. 20, 2023
Only days ago, when U.S. House Republicans ousted Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the... Read More
In Speaker Fight, Rep. Wagner Summons the Courage To ... Oh, Wait, Never Mind Oct. 18, 2023
The Post-Dispatch Editorial Board on Monday morning was prepared to take an unusual stance: The boar... Read More
The Sinking Showboat Oct. 18, 2023
There is an element in the Republican Party that is completely at peace with losing elections. All o... Read More
The Tyranny of a Far-Right Minority Oct. 07, 2023
Democrats have long been trying to paint the Republican Party as a collection of far-right extremist... Read More
Matt Gaetz Didn't Oust McCarthy. He Just Helped Democrats Do It. Oct. 06, 2023
Kevin McCarthy has become the first House speaker to ever be successfully ousted in a motion to vaca... Read More
McCarthy Paid for Enabling the Extremism of His Party. Only Voters Can Fix It. Oct. 06, 2023
So this is what it took for the U.S. House to finally show a little bipartisanship: Eight Republican... Read More
Republicans Seem To Enjoy Losing Big Oct. 06, 2023
Politics is power, which is fleeting. Those with power are wise to use it while it lasts. Democrats ... Read More
Chaos for the Sake of Chaos Is Not Good Governance Oct. 06, 2023
In early January, as then-future and now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was in the m... Read More
Kevin McCarthy Is Not the Problem Oct. 04, 2023
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley got to the heart of the government shutdown fireworks ... Read More
The Other Shoe Jan. 14, 2023
The other shoe just dropped. Or maybe it's the first shoe. It's a new committee to keep an eye on th... Read More
