by Michael Leppert | May 7, 2021 | Politics/Government
Have you ever heard of Margaret Chase Smith? She was a four-term, U.S. Representative (1940-1949) and then a four-term U.S. Senator (1949-1973) from Maine. She is famous for a fifteen-minute speech she gave on the Senate floor in 1950 that came to be known as the...
by Michael Leppert | Oct 4, 2019 | Politics/Government
Who was it that decided to implement tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods? I will give you a hint: it wasn’t Congress. Ukraine, however, is another story. In that example, Congress appropriated $391 million in military relief for Ukraine. President Trump...
by Michael Leppert | May 22, 2016 | Politics/Government
This week I am writing a message to supporters of Donald Trump. I don’t mean the ones who supported him months ago. Those supporters really wouldn’t get this. I am specifically talking about the supporters who once could not fathom Trump as the Republican...
