Sometimes we need to think about what we are not hearing as well as about what we are hearing. Right now we are hearing from the ideologues on the right side of the aisle that the IRS “targeted certain conservative groups” that applied for tax exempt status as a non-profit organization. If that is true, …
No, I am not taking sides even though I think their decision was the correct one. I simply think that the democratic process that the Boy Scouts followed should be an example for our Federal Legislature. There was debate and a vote with the majority determining the outcome. If the Boy Scout leadership had followed …
As I researched the materials for my book, A Broken Sausage Grinder; Is Our Government Fundamentally Flawed?, one of the irrefutable observations that surfaced was that the staff is controlling the government. Another irrefutable observation was that our elected officials are not doing their jobs when it comes to control of the staff. It is …
Senators McCain and Graham are busy challenging the President Obama to be more proactive with the Assad regime, in Syria, as it relates to the possible use of chemical weapons during the civil war there. They remind us that the President has said the use of such weapons would be “a game changer.” The President, …
In my book, A Broken Sausage Grinder; Is Our Government Fundamentally Flawed?, I use Medicaid as an example of an unfunded mandate. The Medicaid program is a federal program which imposes regulations for low-income medical care to be administered by state workers and paid for in part by state resources. Unfunded mandates represent bad government …
From the 1st Congress until today, there have always been ideologues elected to office. In most cases, these extremists have been out on the fringe of the debate and not really able to influence the outcome. For me, the mid-term election of 2010 was a threshold of sorts when the population of ideologues on the …
Senators McCain and Graham want the surviving Boston Marathon bomber designated an “enemy combatant” and dealt with accordingly. I hope this is just more ill-conceived political theater because both of them should know that our Constitution applies to this case which deals with activities inside the borders of the United States of America. Think about …
The President recently announced that his administration would stop enforcing the immigration laws in a limited number of cases primarily involving young students. The media lit up with coverage calling the measure a “policy change” or an “overhaul” of the immigration laws. Then Representatives came to the microphone to decry the measure as sidestepping Congress. …
When it comes to the affairs of our Federal Government, what is right for America is often not what is right for any particular person. I was just listening to CNN as Anderson Cooper was interviewing a Senator with an ideological stance on guns and the Second Amendment. He offered the argument that our current …
Let’s start by making sure we all know that our National Debt is the total amount of money our country owes right now – we borrowed it and we haven’t paid it back. The National Debt is not the same thing as a deficit because it is cumulative and a deficit is an annual measure …
