Fair Tax Isn’t Fair to Lower, Middle Incomes

by | Oct 6, 2011 | Opinion

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was interviewed Oct. 2 on “Fox News Sunday” and on “This Week.” Cain was chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza from 1986-96. From 1995-96, he also was chairman of the board of directors of the...

The Dangerous Arrogance of Refusing to Compromise

by | Aug 24, 2011 | Opinion

Compromise is “a rather complex issue that deserves serious thought.” So I wrote in an Aug. 5 comment following that day’s blog posting in which I cited Max Weber’s oft-quoted statement, “politics is the art of compromise.” In...

Why The Dalai Lama’s Message of Peace Resonates

by | Jul 19, 2011 | Opinion

Tenzin Gyatso is known around the world as the Dalai Lama. He was in Washington, D.C., recently, and I could have gone to hear him speak. One day I even had a free ticket in my hand, but I gave it back as I had already decided not to go. I probably would have gone if...

Pope’s Support 120 Years Ago Affirms Labor Unions

by | May 16, 2011 | Opinion

Pope Leo XIII issued the momentous encyclical Rerum Novarum (“Of New Things”) 120 years ago, on May 15, 1891. Leo XIII, who had been the pope for 25 years when he died in 1903, began his 1891 encyclical (formal statement sent to the bishops) by talking...