SmallGovTimes.com authors: Michael Bates

Michael M. Bates has written a weekly column of opinion - or nonsense, depending on your viewpoint - since 1985 for the (southwest suburban Chicago) Reporter Newspapers. Additionally, his articles have appeared in the Congressional Record, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Mensa Journal. He has been a guest on Milt Rosenberg's program on WGN Radio Chicago, the Bruce Elliott show on Baltimore's WBAL, and the Jim Sumpter show on the USA Radio Network. As a lad, Mike distributed Goldwater campaign literature and since then has steadily moved further to the Right. He is the author of "Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths."

• McAuliffe's excellent adventures -- April 6th, 2007
  
  
• Class struggle rhetoric obscures the truth -- January 19th, 2007
  
  
• Chairman-in-waiting Rangel feels a draft -- November 21st, 2006
  
  
• Senator Obama hits a speed bump -- November 8th, 2006
  
  
• Republicans had their chance and blew it -- November 1st, 2006
  
  
• Hillary stuck between Barack and a hard place -- October 24th, 2006
  
  
• What a Democratic victory will mean -- October 18th, 2006
  
  
• How much good will have we squandered? -- September 24th, 2006
  
  
• An American tragedy in black and white -- September 9th, 2005