George Mitrovich is president of two leading American public forums, The City Club of San Diego and The Denver Forum. In addition, he chairs the Boston Red Sox The Great Fenway Park Writers Series.
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Rachel Maddow said Friday night that Bernie Sanders' campaign may be in trouble because it is based upon voter turnout -- that in Iowa and New Hampshire the number of Democrats voting in this year's caucus and primary was down from 2008. That's true, it&
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I am not a “numbers guy,” but from baseball to politics, numbers fascinate me. Following the Iowa Caucuses, I wrote about the fact that the national media had OD'd on a state unworthy of their time, attention, and money. The percentage of registered Republicans who voted for the
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Earlier tonight, I was saying to my wife, La Verle, the biggest loser in the presidential race is the national media. Brian Williams was just saying on MSNBC, "The biggest loser is national punditry." That too, Brian. When you media folks try to figure it all out on
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THE IOWA CAUCUSES CONSUMED NATIONAL MEDIA, especially the Republican race. They spent oodles of money, time and personnel to cover this first-in-the-nation “primary.” The cable networks, Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, we're all over it – hour by hour, day by day, week by week. And, of course, last night,
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In Athens of antiquity, the inventors of democracy set up a law that required every person to vote. Anyone found not voting would be publicly marked and labeled an idiot; someone who thought their own personal needs trumped those of the society around them, wrote Isaac DeVille. I begin here
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. -Nicolo MachiavelliThe Prince (1532) Since this column bears my name you may assume what you read in
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were reality, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.- Nicolo Machiavelli, The 8th Institute I began writing opinion pieces in 1973. It’s now 39-years later and in
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The Boston Globe reported this week that during the 10-year ownership of the Red Sox by John Henry, Tom Werner, Larry Lucchino and their partners, the team has contributed more than $52 million to charity, the most by any team in baseball, and probably in all professional sports. It affirms
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I started writing for the Presidio Sentinel in 2005. I did so at the invitation of Chuck Fox. Last night he passed away. He was a lovely man, who somehow dealt with the adversity of ill health with pluck and humor. His friendship enriched my life. http://www.linkedin.com/
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The item that follows is more than a baseball note. Baseball teams that play in ballparks funded in whole or part by public money are thereby inherently fair game for political comment and judgment: Bill Center of the U-T San Diego reported last night on the newspaper's Web
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Justin Catlin, won the 110-meter semis on Sunday at the Olympics in 9.82 seconds, posting a faster time in the semi-finals than Ursain Bolt. When asked by an NBC reporter after his amazing race what it meant? Mr. Caitlin said, “It’s not about me it’s about America.
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Credit: theresolve.org Mitt Romney is not my candidate for president. But I have sought to be respectful of him as a person and as someone who has taken on the great challenge of wanting to lead the USA (that respect, by the way, is not automatic, it does not