Posts related primarily to the Executive Branch of our Federal Government.
Depending on where you were in the 1980s, you may not remember a delightful lady who became a bit of an icon for the Wendy’s fast food restaurants. She appeared to be a petite lady of many years and her lines in the commercials were very limited. That said, she made the phrase, “where’s the …
With all the turmoil and chaos we have been living with for the last four years, most of our fellow Americans are exhausted emotionally. With all the anxiety and fear that we have been subjected to in 2020 by the Coronavirus, it is hard to imagine a reason for any American not to have an …
I don’t remember where I heard this, but there was said to be this small town along the Western frontier. It was a small town. In fact, it was so small that it could not support one Lawyer, but it could support two. The point is this. Lawyers argue with each other about disagreements between …
Yesterday I republished my blog post from November 10th, 2016 where I expressed my thoughts about how we had shouted to the world that we are a Nation of prejudice, and misbehaviors that had previously been thought to exist only in the shadows of our society. For those who might want to read that post, …
On November 10th of 2016 I wrote a blog post that seems worth another look today. Back then there were people everywhere proclaiming “this is not who we are,” but we all know our vote in the Presidential Election of 2016 shouted to the world that our vote told them exactly who we are. Here …
As the Presidential Election of 2020 draws closer, we hear more and more talk of how the President might hang on to the office beyond January 20th, 2021 even if he loses the election. President Trump has actually said to reporters that he might not accept the results of the election. Those reporters and other …
We have this idea that we should be able to know the results of an election as soon as the polls close. It is just another example of instant gratification that shows up throughout our society. We know that local elections are easier to count than State-wide elections, but computers are fast so larger elections …
I have heard our President say on several occasions that we have bigger numbers of cases because we are doing more testing. I don’t think he really believes that getting the test will actually give you the covid-19 virus, but that is surely what his words are saying. If he is intending for us to …
I have spent a lot of my thought time trying to understand why people do what they do. When I don’t understand a behavior I see, I try to put myself in the body of the one I observe and imagine what could have motivated them. Call it empathy if you want, but I simply …
These last few days I find my mind wandering around the thought that the Founding Fathers never saw this coming. I’m having trouble maintaining my focus because I have read widely about their visions for the government they were designing and the robustness of their plans while encountering similarly broad examples of dysfunction. Was their …
