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Soccer stadium trumps social needs. A politician laments over what’s wrong.

jdaurora63@outlook.com / December 27, 2018

The end of 2018 brought two news items that don’t make sense to me—a soccer stadium and a politician’s farewell speech. First, the soccer stadium. Columbus and Franklin County will help fund the proposed Arena District soccer stadium. The city will contribute $50 million for site development and infrastructure costs, and the county will pitch […]

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Political Issues

Forget the sharp attitude. Offer coffee instead.

jdaurora63@outlook.com / November 19, 2018

Is it smart to fight fire with fire in politics? Some months back, Congresswoman Maxine Waters urged her constituents to be uncivil to Republicans in public. A restaurant owner in Northern Virginia asked White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. Protesters disrupted the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Hillary Clinton said that Democrats should

Bret Stephens, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Michael Gerson, Ozlem Cekic, Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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Political Issues, Uncategorized

More diversity would make for a better Congress

jdaurora63@outlook.com / November 4, 2018

If you haven’t noticed, Congress doesn’t represent a cross-section of America. Its members comprise a narrow sector of the nation, and that’s a problem for reasons I’ll discuss in a minute. First, let’s look at the numbers. Non-Hispanic whites make up 61 percent of our population, but 80 percent of representatives and senators are white.

Congress, diversity, Katherine Phillips, McKinsey & Co., old white men, Sara F. Ellison, Wallace P. Mullin

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Social Issues

Men are no more at risk now than before

jdaurora63@outlook.com / October 21, 2018

President Donald Trump warns that the Senate confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh indicates that “it’s a very scary time for young men in America.” Fox journalist Jeanine Pirro believes the left is setting a new standard—“You are guilty until proven innocent”—and that due process, probable cause and reasonable doubt no longer have any meaning. Let’s

#MeToo, Barbara O’Brien, Donald Trump, Jay Ambrose, Jeanine Pirro, Samuel R. Gross

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Political Issues

Would Brett Kavanaugh have survived a job interview in the private sector?

jdaurora63@outlook.com / October 9, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh succeeded in making it through the Senate confirmation process, but how he would have fared if applying for a job in the private sector? Though both involve a vetting process, the Senate hearings were more concerned about ensuring a conservative voice was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and less concerned about what

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Political Issues, Social Issues

U.S. wage gap is not likely to improve

jdaurora63@outlook.com / September 30, 2018

The Pew Research Center reports that income inequality is at its highest point since 1928. Will it ever substantially improve? Not without a dramatic paradigm shift. From 1979 to 2015, annual wages increased for the bottom 90 percent of Americans by 21 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. For the top 1.0 percent, the

Andrew McAfee, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau., Donald Trump, Erik Brynjolfsson, Mick Mulvaney, personal injury, tort reform, wage gap

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Social Issues

What’s the best way to measure patriotism?

jdaurora63@outlook.com / June 24, 2018

We’re in the midst of a national kerfuffle over what it means to be patriotic, and it has a lot more to do with ego and attitude than substance. Funny thing is, the man who started the ruckus never served in the military. President Donald Trump has castigated NFL players for not standing during the

Kennedy, McCain, Menashe, Oller, patriotism, Trump

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