Mostly Politics reflects Dan Boylan’s views on political issues facing the state of Hawaii, and the nation. Dan Boylan teaches history at the University of Hawaii--West Oahu.
Below are the last 5 columns written by Dan Boylan
Like Film Noir At The Legislature
Wednesday - January 25, 2012
By Dan Boylan
It was, as it was a year ago, film noir at last week’s opening of the 2012 state legislative session: No music, no dancing, few flowers, sobriety everywhere. The residents of the so-called “People’s House” were in high re-election-year mode: all business, levity at a minimum.
Read Column>>Of Bread And Political Circuses
Wednesday - January 18, 2012
By Dan Boylan
“Give them bread and circuses and they’ll never revolt,” wrote the poet Juvenal as he watched the once exemplary Roman Republic decline into a dictatorship.
Read Column>>A Lesson In Political Mandates
Wednesday - January 11, 2012
By Dan Boylan
Back in the day, when I was a mere stripling studying political science, my professors talked endlessly about mandates.
Read Column>>A Blustery Time For The President
Wednesday - January 04, 2012
By Dan Boylan
Ill winds blow when the Obamas come to down: “blustery,” the weather people call it “with “splashes” of rain here and “splashes” of rain there in the words of weatherman extraordinaire Guy Hagi. Since their first presidential Christmas visit in 2008, Barack, Michelle and the girls have known downpours as well, and three years ago sufficient bluster to cause an islandwide power outage that had the Secret Service scrambling.
Read Column>>Good Riddance To 2011 Politics
Wednesday - December 27, 2011
By Dan Boylan
The ghosts of new years past can haunt us every bit as much of those of Christmases past. Consider those of 2011:
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