Here’s why.. How many of us have attractive, intelligent, out-spoken, confident women in our family? I bet you can name at least a couple would you CHANGE her/them? How many of us know of a woman who would put us in our place in a minute if we got out of line? And that includes your mom, would you tell HER to shut up?

Please don’t tell me if Street Sense, the Washington D.C. based paper for and by the city’s homeless, has a downside, a seedy uncurrent, a mismanaged office. I don’t want to know. Because I love it. I love the home-grown nature of it, the pull-yourself up by your bootstraps nature of it, and, frankly, the fine

First off I am not some raving pull yourself up by the bootstraps type nor am I a closeted Republican….let me just say that since I know words like personal responsibility have been completely misused by such individuals. That said, I have a rant that’s been brewing off and on for a while and I need

My father was a Republican until he got wiser in his old age, or until George W. Bush became the leader of the party, whichever you prefer. Last night we got into a discussion of Reagan and the Republican ideal of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.” What’s interesting is that the Republicans don’t have this

Oh, how I yearn for a clean, civil, stick-to-the-issues campaign. I hear over and over that I’m not alone, that most people really don’t like negative campaigns and attack ads. But history and reality proves otherwise. Vitriol works. So with that distressing realization, I agree with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman who says in his

                WORK YOURSELF UP       TO A POINT TO WHERE  PEOPLE WILL SEE YOU AND SEE HOW  MUCH ENERGY YOU ARE PUTTING INTO WHAT EVER YOU DO. SOMEONE MAY TAKE NOTICE,  MY SON… CONTINUE FORWARD AND DO NOT HESITATE IN BUILDING A GOOD REPUTATION FOR YOURSELF ACHIEVEMENT CANNOT BE DONE WITHOUT WORKING HARD YOU CANNOT SIT BACK ON YOUR BEHIND AND EXPECT TO ACCOMPLISH ANY GOALS GET UP,  GET MOTIVATED…AND TRY, 

Some people are born with a silver spoon and take full advantage of their opportunities, but some born with every opportunity still seem to blow numerous opportunities for happiness and success. Contrarily, some people seemingly have few advantages, but show a sense of resiliency and appear to make much out of little. Well, what about

A remark by former Governor Mike Huckabee at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on why he is a republican:  ¶   “I’m not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me.” The disconnect of the

It took a particularly long time to find any hint of reality on television yesterday. I decided that I wasn’t interested in watching the still complicit media and criminally culpable government pretend to morn the deaths of September 11, so my options were even more limited than usual. All of the cable networks were obviously

Someone tell me why that $700 billion can’t be put to actually helping out individuals rather than Wall Street. The Feds will need to create some administrative infrastructure that will handle doling out - yes, I am using the rhetoric of welfare intentionally here - $700 billion to Wall Street. There will be som wrangling over