Category: EDITORIAL COLUMNISTS
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Better Trump than Hillary? - Blue
“By the end of his first 100 days as the nation’s 45th leader, the wall with Mexico would be designed, the immigration ban on Muslims would be in place, the…
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ELECTION UPDATE #3 - RED
What an unbelievable mess! The insurgency within the Republican Party has succeeded and the outsider has won. The insurgency within the Democratic Party has…
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Council in the Limits - Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! This article addresses a hodgepodge of issues. I included a few questions for you below. Please send the questions (and comments or…
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Elections, elections, elections - Hypocrisy
Elections, elections, elections, most of us are getting weary, myself included, but like many others it occupies so much of our thinking time that I feel…
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Citizenship and the Political Class - The Public Square
We once produced national leaders who deeply cared about the fate of our nation and its people, but not now. No longer can we depend on the leadership class…
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Federal Water Agencies: The Environmental Protection Agency - Waterworld
In my series on federal water agencies, so far I’ve written about the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)and the Bureau of…
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“Crisis” in “Higher Education” - BLUE
Commentary , Norman Podhoretz’s once liberal monthly gone cranky neo-right, recently described at some length, “The New Dark Ages on Campus.” Jon Zimmerman,…
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College Education and Cuban Cigars - RED
Mario Savio is spinning in his grave. Readers of a certain age will remember Savio as one of the movers of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement. Back then, liberals…
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Council in the Limits - Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! My mission is to address your questions, get more people involved and to address periodic issues concerning Middleburg and its community.…
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Hillary Clinton, Fracking , Superdelegates and the TPP
Starting with superdelegates: The Democratic party has about 4,000 pledged delegates, who are committed to vote for the candidate who has won the most…
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Election Noise - The Public Square
The national election is leaving people dispirited. And there is good reason for it. Those at top are not bringing clarity to the affairs of the nation very…
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Federal Water Resource Agencies - Waterworld
June 5, 1976 was not a red-letter day in the history of the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau). The Bureau was in the process of filling their latest construction,…
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Water - Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! This article’s purpose is to address your questions, get more people involved and to address periodic issues concerning Middleburg and its…
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Fleeced - Blue
The current state of state of the GOP reminds me of nothing so much as the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Jason, you will remember, accompanied by his…
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March Madness - Red
Nope, it’s not about basketball. As this issue of “The Eccentric” goes to press, March is about to end though the madness looks to continue for quite some…
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Hypocrisy
These are politically trying times for most Americans and I am sure most are reaching our limits on how much more campaigning we can suffer. Our system is so…
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Federal Water Resource Agencies - Waterworld
The 100th meridian bisects North Dakota and Texas and the four states between them. As settlers moved west during the 19th century and crossed this imaginary…
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Policy Is Rarely Leadership - The Public Square
In this election cycle, a lot of things live in the wrong buckets. Running a campaign around ideology or policy is wrong. Assessing leadership is the…
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Holidays. Why is this Still a Thing? - BLUE
With apologies to John Oliver, why ARE some of our “national holidays” still “a thing?” In one sense, they aren’t, and never have been. Believe it or not, the…
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National Holy Days - RED
Technically, we don’t have national holidays. We have federal holidays which only federal government entities need recognize. Whatever we call them, however,…