One of our greater American films – is Groundhog Day. Where Bill Murray’s character – television weatherman Phil – is caught in a time loop. He awakens every day – to the exact same day. He is stuck on February 2nd – Groundhog Day. Once past the bewilderment stage, Phil understandably, quickly grows increasingly perturbed…
Tag: trans-pacific partnership
Tom Vilsack is a rurally focused individual. The Democrat is a former Iowa governor – who is currently the only Department of Agriculture Secretary President Barack Obama has had. Vilsack is, of course, a partisan politician. He was a dark horse on the short list to be presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential pick. He…
The Republican Party has a well-earned reputation for writing good policy platforms every four years at their Conventions – then doing the exact opposite of nigh all of it once in power. To wit: Unless I am mistaken, the Platform has called for the abolition of the Department of Education every cycle since the abomination’s…
There has been a lot of discussion of trade of late – both here and across the Pond in Europe. As with most things subjected to public discourse – there is much mis- and disinformation being thrown around. Over There, Great Britain just voted to leave the European Union (EU). They did so because they…