Is Chuck Todd’s Moment Also America’s Moment?
If it’s Sunday, it will be Meet the Press, but with a new host. Chuck Todd, most recently NBC’s Chief White House correspondent and host of MSNBC’s The Daily Rundown, will naturally slide into the...
View ArticleObama’s Indiana Visit All About 2014
Barack Obama will make his sixth visit to Indiana as president, and his first since 2011, when he stops in Gibson County on Friday. The White House officially announced his visit to a Toyota supplier...
View ArticleObama Gets Millennials. Or So He Says.
The White House released a “Fact Sheet” in advance of President Barack Obama’s Millennial town hall in California later today. In it, they rightfully point out that Millennials – those born between...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Not Destined to Win Indiana in ’16
Can Hillary Clinton win Indiana in 2016? Mitch Stewart thinks so. Stewart, the battleground state director for Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, recently floated the idea that Indiana, among...
View ArticlePick any metric? Don’t mind if I do.
“Pick any metric you want,” implored President Barack Obama in his final weekly radio address of 2014. “America’s resurgence is real.” So why not oblige his request — he is the president of the United...
View ArticleWhose Definition is it Anyway?
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused yesterday to define recent terrorist actions in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere as “Radical Islam” or “Islamic extremism.” Instead, he said, “The...
View ArticleAll Eyes on CPAC
Starting today, the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, site of the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference, will occupy the center of the political universe –...
View ArticleMillennials Support What?!: Part Three
Welcome, friends, to the trilogy edition of Millennials Support What?! It’s been quite a while since we last met back in July. In that episode, my Millennial generation blew the collective minds of...
View ArticleMay 29th & A History of U.S.-Cuba Relations
Cuban President Raul Castro indicated yesterday that the United States and Cuba would exchange ambassadors amid the normalization of ties between the countries sometime after May 29th. On that day, the...
View ArticleTrust
When Jack Nicholson’s Joker joyfully exclaimed, “It’s time for ‘Who do you trust?’” in the 1991 film “Batman,” he was asking Gotham City to make a choice between him, a man looking to inflict pain and...
View ArticleHillary the Reactionary
Put aside for a moment, if you will, any emotions you may have regarding a Hillary Clinton candidacy for president and, if it were to come to fruition, presidency itself. With that feeling of...
View ArticleTaking Millennials Seriously
The U.S. House Republican Policy Committee, under the direction of Indiana congressman Luke Messer, recently held a hearing titled “Millennials and the GOP: Learning from America’s Emerging Leaders to...
View ArticleBayh the Bundler
Secretary of State. Governor. Senator. Evan Bayh has held many titles. But according to recent reports he’s added another to his resume, one that might help him obtain the prestigious title he’s longed...
View ArticleThursday’s Battle Royal
Last December, I implored those wanting to be president to just, you know, run for president. Speculation at the time was that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would defer to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush if...
View ArticleCarly’s Challenge
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and one time U.S. Senate candidate, found herself the talk of the town following an impressive performance in the first presidential debate of the 2016...
View ArticleRun, Joe, Run?
In September 2013, over at TheFrontRowSeat.com, I asked “Does anyone literally want Joe Biden to run in 2016?” “Our gregarious vice president is already making the rounds, commanding the stage in early...
View ArticleHillary & History
Hillary Clinton hopes she’s on a march toward history – but there are obstacles in her path. The first is Bernie Sanders. The self-described socialist from Vermont raised only $2 million less than...
View ArticleCarson Not Heeding Own Advice
The mass staff exodus from Dr. Ben Caron’s presidential campaign exposed an under-reported quality in candidates: choosing the right people to give advice. As Carson’s now former campaign manager,...
View ArticleCruz’s Who vs. What Gamble
In an attempt, I suppose, to combat aggressive actors on the world stage and political partisans at home, some voters are opting for the “who” – personality driven candidates – rather than the “what” –...
View ArticleLessons Learned from Beyond the Water’s Edge
I’ve traveled extensively around the world, from South America to Europe, from the Middle East to Asia, but no trip has impacted my world view the way my recent visit to India with the American Council...
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