Long Story Short

I don’t like big government. I don’t like political messages in schools. But what really gets me steamed is people that don’t respect the office of President of the United States. Maybe we didn’t vote for Obama. Well, boo-hoo. President Obama won. He is the President elected by the [...]

The new administration has taken the direction of government through a bootleg turn like hasn’t been seen since the Dukes of Hazzard went off the air. Some of those actions I have greeted with a sigh of relief. The most important one being that he reversed the “aggressive” or “enhanced” interrogation techniques of [...]

The first big test for the federal government, now controlled by the Democratic Party, is the economy.  Already on the skids prior to the President’s election, the world economy decelerated rapidly after his election.  Apparently, world markets were not convinced that the all Democratic financial management team was what the U.S. needed.

Our new president has nominated three tax cheats to key posts.  Two of them had the decency to withdraw their nominations.  One of them is now Secretary of the Treasury.  Since when did “change” mean “the same-old same-old”?  Ah, yes, when it was spoken by a politician.

If you were the new president, what would your priorities be? Not asking how you would make it happen, but what would you want to happen?
Here’s my list (off the top of my head).

Economic recovery.  Our economy is the engine that makes all other missions possible.  It is the parent that should get the [...]

I’m Tom Long and this is my story, hence the name.
This past Tuesday, the United States turned an historic corner.  We now have our first President who is a person of color.  As a WASP male, I don’t celebrate what that color is so much as I celebrate how little it mattered to the electorate.  [...]

I have finally come up with a combination that affords me the privilege of being an informed voter without the overload and spinning that comes from my previously obsessive media exposure.   Here is my very simple approach.
1. Watch debates on C-Span.  No commentary – just candidates representing their own views.  I don’t care about polls [...]