Tag: government

Below is the letter that I enclosed in this year’s Christmas cards.

With the holiday season fast approaching, I hope this letter finds you well.

It’s quite unlike me, but this year I’d like to talk a bit about my work.

My current job involves

It's not clear where the pull towards public service comes from, notwithstanding all my love for money.

My education probably has something to do with it. My alma mater, Boston College / Boston College Law School, instilled a call for service through an education grounded in

I am an unabashed capitalist. I have helped mega-corporations raise billions of dollars. I'm an investor who shows little interest other than stock prices. I'm unapologetic in my pursuit of money and I don't particualrly think there's anything wrong with that.

Yet the greatest job fulfillment I

Dear Tom,

You and I will forever be bound by the bond we formed during our days at Boston College, so it's hardly a surprise that, as I attended your celebration of matrimony with Kris-Stella last month, I looked back on our time together at BC.

In particular, I thought about what it means to be a BC

Donald J. Trump is president-elect.

Much like me, you are probably stunned with this statement and are still unable to comprehend how this is so.

One thing is for certain, though. What you witnessed last night was fury in ways previously unseen.

Consider: only 37% of the voters believed that Donald Trump was qualified for the presidency

These days, one of my greatest frustrations is with people who complain about politicians.  This essentially means that I'm frustrated with almost everyone I know.

I'm frustrated because I find most people's view towards politicians to be rather irresponsible.  Americans live in a democracy, governed by the persons they themselves elected.  The people in government who

The 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution all started with a C paper.

It was 1982, and the constitutional debate du jour was the Equal Rights Amendment, which was intended to guarantee equal rights for men and women.  The amendment passed both houses of Congress in 1972 and was given to the states to ratify

In the winter of 2005, Michael Sessions decided to run for the mayor of his hometown.

The city of Hillsdale, located in the Southern part of the state of Michigan with a population of 8,200 and known for being the home of Hillsdale College, had been hit hard by the downturn of the automobile industry

In 2003, conservative commentator Billy Krystol spoke at Boston College and foretold the rough road ahead for the Republicans by astutely observing, "There's nothing more difficult than being in power."

The flip side is equally true: there's nothing easier--and more irresponsible--than not being in power.  This is a lesson the just-resigned Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama

There was a time when I considered a career in politics, but no longer.  It is, by far, without a doubt, the most thankless job in America, and the world.  Who praises politicians?  I do (in general) because I'm a politician apologist, but this is a club with fewer members than my other club, "The

I like to cut to the chase and believe, in general, that getting to the heart of the matter, in the most simplistic form, identifies the problem, which is the first step towards finding a solution.

I find what triggered the current financial crises, the subprime mortgage, to be a relatively simple issue.  Of course various