Presidential Job Application Question #5 (with my answer): What experience have you had that will serve you well as president?

Slate's John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled:The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President.Over the course of the next seven days, I…

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Presidential Job Application Question #4 (with my answers): What’s your greatest governing triumph?

Slate's John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled:The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President.Over the course of the next seven days, I…

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Presidential Job Application Question #3 (with my answers): What’s your greatest political triumph?

Slate's John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled:The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President.Over the course of the next seven days, I…

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Presidential Job Application: Question #2 (with my answer): What's the biggest personal crisis you’ve faced and how did you handle it?

Slate's John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled:The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President.Over the course of the next seven days, I…

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The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs: An expletive-laced mention in Library Journal

Library Journal - the journal for librarians everywhere - mention my upcoming novel with some surprisingly explicit language. But in a good way. I'm thrilled, of course. After my wife and children…

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Presidential Job Application Question #1 (with my answer): What’s the biggest crisis you’ve faced in your professional life and how did you handle it?

When I was in high school, I played a game in a character building workshop that required my classmates and me to assign a monetary value to our future dreams and priorities.…

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Marco Rubio: You can’t claim to be young when your ideas are as old as dirt.

Marco Rubio is 44 years-old. He's exactly my age. He also opposes same sex marriage. Opposes legalized marijuana. Doesn't accept that climate change is man made. Doesn't accept the theory of evolution. The list goes…

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