Conversations

Ken: There is so much going on these days that there are many issues to examine. Of course, the war in eastern Europe grinds on. But there is a column-worthy quirky conflict, a tea-cup tempest, going on in Florida that isn’t getting enough me…

Joe: Well, I thought I would start this piece on a subject in which you have had a lot of experience — healthcare. Together we have written a lot about it. The Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, known as Obamacare. This Frankenstein piece of…

Joe: Do you remember Nixon’s “Madman Theory”? It was summarized in the memoir of H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, as “a threat of egregious military action by an unpredictable president.”

Ken (3/9/22): The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. The attack was motivated by the fact that Ukraine was indicating that it was moving toward an alliance with Western Europe and membership in the NATO Defense Pact.

Ken: (2/20/22) The Ukraine pot is at a full rolling boil. Something has to happen and soon. The Russian army is stationed at the Ukraine border and appears ready for a full-scale invasion. Putin, the evil dictator, just has to say “go.”

Ken: Everything political from now until November is about the midterms. And, although he has conducted himself as if he rode a landslide into the White House, the fact is that President Biden won his office in 2020 by the slimmest of margins.