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There are young people today who don’t have a clue what a rotary telephone was all about. They’re even more in the proverbial dark about the former existence of party lines and what they entailed — and what had to be endured — when part of one. Many young people probably can’t fathom a time when cellphones didn’t exist and how people accomplished anything without having one always at the ready. With time comes change, and now a significant change is happening on the federal front. It was a change destined to happen sooner or later and that “sooner” is now. Based on ...

Peace isn’t a deal

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, a quick study in the art of laying it on thick, announced that he was teaming up with Israel’s Knesset speaker to invite parliamentary leaders from around the world to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — and for nothing less than inaugurating “a new golden age.” Though refraining from that level of MAGA-fication, Democrats have not stinted on the praise due to Trump for achieving the ceasefire and hostage agreement. Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden ...

Let Babydog eat cake

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You’d be forgiven if you were to think that West Virginia only has one U.S. Senator instead of two. Because based on appearances, U.S. Sen. Jim Justice appears to be doing the bare minimum. Sure, Justice is casting votes. If he has missed any, I’m unaware. The same goes for committee meetings. Justice is attending meetings, casting votes, and sometimes making speeches, though many times those speeches have little to do with whatever the committee is discussing that day. But is doing the bare minimum enough? One of my favorite movies is “Office Space.” In one scene, a server ...

Democrats still haven’t learned any lessons

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On Thursday, Senate Democrats voted for the 10th time to prolong the federal government shutdown. They also voted against funding the military, thereby necessitating that the Pentagon initiate some innovative accounting in order to ensure service members are paid on time. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) defended his caucus’s latest vote, opining, “It’s always been unacceptable to Democrats to do the defense bill without other bills that have so many things that are important to the American people in terms of health care, in terms of housing, in terms of safety.” ...

Showing up: Presence makes a difference

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Leaders underestimate their impact in showing up. Why? I find most leaders do not see themselves as special. They see themselves as being the same as others.  A highlight of my career was working with the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Floyd (Fred) Loop, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) at the time, hired my company. (Dr. Loop is no longer with us physically; however, his impact lives on.) He referred to the work as “providing world-class care.” Dr. Loop was a private person. For the kickoff of the engagement session, a daylong event that included presentations from me ...

Back in time

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As I peruse the numerous news networks, it feels as if October 1973 has miraculously reappeared. The President of the United States is trying to end a Middle East conflict, but must deal with the repercussions of an “enemies’ list.” Despite having a reasonably stable economy, the President manages to provoke a domestic and foreign policy crisis. No, that president is not Donald Trump. It is Richard Nixon. But the parallel problems are similar, though not exactly the same. Karl Marx once quipped, comparing Napoleon the Third with his uncle’s enterprise to seize power in France, ...