The U.S. government has become a one-trick pony when it comes to how we deal with our adversaries.
If we don’t like something another country does, we sanction them. We are approaching 9000 different sanctions in place on foreign businesses, individuals, and countries. …
A few weeks ago, I saw an article in the paper where the score of a girl’s high school basketball game was 92–4.
You do not usually see scores like that, but what caught my eye was that the coach of the winning team was suspended for unsportsmanlike behavior. Did…
The absurdity of the current form of the Senate filibuster has finally been laid bare for all to see.
If you believe in the sanctity of elections, then the majority should rule for as long as it can keep its majority. The argument of Sinema, Manchin, and most Republicans is…
The past is never very far from the present and can often help predict the future.
In 1973, I was in college and recently married. I was working full time and my bride, who was also a student, was searching for a job. Inflation was recognized as a serious problem…
The one thing I know is that we have constant inconsistencies in our politics.
Is President Joe Biden a liberal Democrat, a democratic Socialist, or (as some believe) a Communist? I think I would eliminate the Communist handle immediately. Some of his policies, such as paid family leave, are hallmarks…
As we celebrate Christmas, what does the day really mean to Americans?
Many of us have secularized the day to such a point that it has no religious significance. Many Americans may count it as another holiday…Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. By stripping the acknowledgement of Jesus’ birth from the…
The newest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 6.8% inflation as of November for the year.
Inflation has not been so high in almost 40 years. The news media is making much more out of this than what the numbers signify. …
New York City is doing something that may seem unprecedented but has been done before…allowing permanent non-citizen legal residents to vote in local elections. The last time this occurred was in school board elections during the decentralization years of the mid-20th century.
In the 19th and early 20th century, 40…
Did the Founders error when they decided to institute a non-parliamentary form of government?
Being well read, Madison and Hamilton were quite familiar with Baron de Montesquieu’s seminal work, The Spirit of the Laws (De l‘esprit des lois.) Montesquieu argues that there are three types of political systems: republican, monarchies…
Many of us hear numbers, and we have reactions from numbness to incomprehension. Our economy’s numbers are measured in the trillions of dollars. We at times trying to understand those numbers become irrational in our reasoning.
For example, the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2020 was $20.94 trillion…
