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Oct 3, 2024 | 
medium.com | Tom Davis
There are no legitimate excuses for doing otherwiseTom Davis·FollowPublished inCivil Politics·7 min read·--The banner of the “Real” Republican Party, photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsPresidential elections in the United States have basically been between the two major political parties for over a hundred years.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
medium.com | Tom Davis
Getting The Nation’s Politics Pointed To True NorthWe now live in a country where only one percent of the U.S. population serve in the nation’s military, and only six percent ever did — the group we call veterans. Accordingly, I’m always a bit reluctant to attempt making a political point with a military analogy as few can relate to it. But let me try on this one.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
medium.com | Tom Davis
In March of 1977, after two years of lying low back in California, disgraced former President Richard Nixon agreed to a series of interviews with British journalist David Frost. Nixon saw this as an opportunity to explain his behavior before, during, and after the Watergate scandal that had forced his resignation - and likely to highlight his memoirs that were about to hit the market. Frost saw it as a most lucrative journalistic opportunity.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
medium.com | Tom Davis
By Tom Davis He's unquestionably New York's most "unfavorite son"Caricature of Donald Trump courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Back in the political dark ages when national conventions were more than television productions, they were staged with a degree of drama. Today primary voters pick the convention delegates who are bound to support a candidate, but in the past that chore was largely handled by state political parties. When the...
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
medium.com | Tom Davis
By Tom Davis Ft. Sumter, SC after the opening shots of the Civil War, photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The American Civil War was, without question, the nation's most horrific. American military casualties were over 600,000, fifty percent greater than those of World War II. That's what happens when you fight yourself, and casualties on both sides create one total. Estimates of civilian casualties, which were mostly in the southern...
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May 14, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Tom Davis
General Motors once ran an advertising campaign in the 1980’s to update the image of their Oldsmobile car line. The slogan they came up with was “It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile.” It was a disaster– older Oldsmobile owners were offended, and younger buyers were unpersuaded – but it seems appropriate for the Republican Party. Also back in the 1980s, the Republican Party was dominated by President Ronald Reagan, a man of firm conservative views.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
groundbreakcarolinas.com | Tom Davis |Poyner Spruill |Joan Krause
Many construction contracts, especially on private projects, contain alternative dispute resolution provisions. These provisions often incorporate the Construction Industry Rules and Mediation Procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). These Rules and Procedures were revised effective March 1, 2024. Among the changes are the following:Fax numbers (and Fax communications) have been eliminated in favor of email. Preliminary hearings may now be conducted by videoconference.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Tom Davis
April 24, 2024
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Many construction contracts, especially on private projects, contain alternative dispute resolution provisions. These provisions often incorporate the Construction Industry Rules and Mediation Procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA). These Rules and Procedures were revised effective March 1, 2024.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
medium.com | Tom Davis
I think I know who and when — and it wasn’t TrumpOver the past nine years, both American society and its political class have been rocked and distorted by the impact of Donald Trump. Since he descended from the escalator in Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, what was once considered politically toxic and irresponsible is now a common — if still abnormal — part of the national political tapestry. For example, Trump began his comments on that first day with a lie.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Tom Davis
For years, I had the privilege of teaching economics to West Point cadets, some of the best and brightest our nation has to offer. There was one rule of economics that I kept returning to while teaching them: that which cannot go on will not go on. If a business practice -- or government program, for that matter -- is unsustainable, or if it loses too much money for too long, it will cease to exist. Which brings me to Social Security. Conservatives have a point: it needs a tweak.
