There’s a guy—his name is Phil—who my wife calls whenever something needs to be built or repaired around the house. I’d call him a handyman, but that doesn’t do him justice. You name it— electrical, carpentry, plumbing—it doesn’t matter, he can do it. And he seems like a nice guy in addition to all those…
Are you as sick as I am of the negative political ads on TV and radio? It didn’t used to be like this. For almost 40 years, the Federal Communications Commission had implemented and then enforced something called The Fairness Doctrine. It meant if a person or an issue were attacked on the public airwaves,…
Political campaigns have always been rough and tumble, but at least there was usually the pretense of public civility between the candidates themselves. Positions were established, issues were argued, and ideally the electorate was a bit better informed as a result. But in 1987 everything started to change. That’s when, under Ronald Reagan, the…