The Management Test

This article was written well ahead of scheduled publishing in order to accommodate my travel plans.

My degree is in management so I thought I’d contrast the recent Democrats and Republicans on their management ability. Spoiler alert: It isn’t even close!

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VAN

This article was written well ahead of scheduled publishing in order to accommodate my travel plans.

I’m not inviting you to dance the night away. Wrong Van (Van Halen). Nor is it a wonderful night for a moon dance. Again, wrong Van (Van Morrison). In fact, this Van is spelled VAN. It is an acronym for a computer program – Voter Activation Network. I may not mean much, if anything, to you but it is close to a deity to a generation or more of Democratic political operatives.

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Nixon v. Reagan

This article was written well ahead of scheduled publishing in order to accommodate my travel plans.

Don’t let the title confuse you, this is not a Supreme Court case but rather an argument that could be had among those wondering when America started to go to Hades (PG rating) politically.

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Progressive Sweeping LIV

Timestamp: Early Wednesday morning.

All of next week’s article will be “pre-recorded”. Since this is my last “live” article for a week what is a more fitting way to transition than to write a cleanup one?

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Blame Ronny

I don’t think I’ve ever began an article with a thank you but today it is appropriate. During her Monday night show, Rachel Maddow reminded me that it was the 40th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon which took place on October 23, 1983. 241 American servicemen, mostly Marines, died in that attack. Tragic as it was there is so much more and I’d like to explore a bit of it with you today.

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