Last week’s post made the point that the size of our Federal Government is being controlled by the staff and not by the people we elect to represent our interests in the affairs of government. This week we will look a bit more deeply. The chart above shows us the size of our Federal Government …
If we just listened to the rhetoric, we could easily come to the conclusion that when the President takes the oath of office the size of the Federal Government would start to grow or shrink according to the political beliefs of his party. Generally, Republicans would be shrinking the Federal Government while the Democrats …
“Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?” We all know the words and every time we feel like some regulation is pinching a little too tightly we start talking like our freedoms are being infringed. Right now the whole issue of gun …
It strikes me that there is a similarity between the members of Light Brigade described in the third stanza of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem and American citizens who are facing rigid ideology within our dysfunctional political system. Cannons are limited to a fixed line-of-fire and rigid ideology is fixed to a specific idea. In our …
The act of treason is defined as the betrayal of a trust – treachery, the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign’s family. Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution …
Have you ever said that your vote doesn’t count? You probably said this in a moment of frustration when some seemingly stupid legislation just passed or a government official did something that defied common sense. It was as if they just ignored your thoughts and your values when they acted. So why should you vote? Moreover, why should …
When I ask the question “Is Our Government Fundamentally Flawed?”, I am asking if the design of our government is missing something important for it to operate as the Founding Fathers intended. Did they overlook something? In one of the radio interviews I have done recently, the assertion was made that my assigning responsibility to …
The filibuster is unconstitutional in its current form because it requires a larger majority to “call the question” than is required to “call the Senate to order.” Yesterday, a minority of Senators used the filibuster to avoid a vote on increasing background checks for gun purchases. This is not the democracy our forefathers had in mind …
We’ve all heard the snappy sound bite – “We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.” There is a certain allure, a kind of undeniable wisdom in those words. Let’s have a look. The President spends money that has been authorized by the Legislative Branch (both the House and the Senate) in …
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As the Founding Fathers struggled to create the Constitution and what became the Bill of Rights, there were fifty-five brilliant minds at work. We can only stand in awe of their accomplishments even if we can’t always understand their meaning. Guns, gun ownership, The Second Amendment, mass murder of small children and innocent bystanders have …
