Our history is filled with discussions and even disagreements about the character or our Constitutional government. Many of our number exclaim almost reflexively that we are a democracy while others remind us that “to the republic for which it stands” our flag properly flies over more than just a democracy and a few will even …
Just over a year ago, I offered a blog post regarding the insurrection of January 6th, 2021. I titled my thoughts, It’s Treason Stupid!and I made a case that the behaviors of our former President, several Senators and Representatives and various media persons were best described as Treason. Now, we have witnessed an invasion of …
Good government would involve our elected Representatives and Senators working to keep the government operating and bad government would find their efforts falling short of that goal. Big government would involve arguments about excessive regulations or spending while small government would be described as not doing enough to keep the country growing and prosperous. We …
It is another day and the various talk show hosts are once again spending our time on the investigations into the insurrection of January 6th. As their words spew forth, we often hear how the goal of the insurrection was for President Trump to remain in power, but we are not being told how that …
There is lots of wrangling these days over the senate’s filibuster provisions. If we listen to the talking heads, we are led to believe that this legislative procedure is all but written in stone. I think we would be well advised to do some research. The filibuster is not one of the senate’s rules of …
We’re hearing a lot about new state laws that will have the effect of suppressing the vote of some minority voters around the country. If we believe all we hear some of the state legislatures are passing these laws under the guise of tightening up the state’s election security provisions. Now, we should all be …
Here we are over eight months after the 2020 presidential election was certified by our Federal Legislature and the big lie continues to dominate our media narrative. The people who are spewing the big lie and other false narrative are using their activities to subvert our democratic process and I hear questions about what should …
We’re starting to learn just how close Donald Trump and his loyal followers, domestic enemies of our United States of America, came to successfully overthrowing our government. They came perilously close to ending our republican democracy. Apparently close isn’t good enough. It may not be well understood, but our Founding Fathers actually thought about the …
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and …
For me the murder of George Floyd was a threshold event in many ways. Here I would like to take a look at one of those issues, this whole business of qualified immunity for Police Officers. One of the questions I find popping up in my thoughts a lot these days is how our society …
