Political arguments, even within the family, are nothing new: Think the hippie era, the Vietnam War and the time Sis announced over Thanksgiving dinner she had joined a free-love commune near Taos.Ever since the last presidential election, though, disagreements have become more rancorous, even seemingly unbridgeable. I know people who avoid family visits for fear …
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Pretending that government can be run like a businessis foolish for both politicians and the country. During last year's presidential jamboree, and Ross Perot's short-lived run for president in 1992, I heard many friends say—sometimes pounding their fists on the table for emphasis—that what America needed was someone who could run the country like a business!Presumably …
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In today's toxic political climate, not knowing what's going on may be the best way to retain your sanity.By all rights those of us who have retired in Mexico behind the Tortilla Curtain should be spared the political chatter and acrimony that permeates even conversations at strip bars back home.But even here, seven hundred miles south of the …
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