Posts related primarily to the Legislative Branch of our Federal Government.
It is January 6, 2023. It is two years ago today that a mob of un-Americans laid siege to our Capital in the hopes of retaining Donald J. Trump in the office of the Presidency. Donald Trump and his many minions had prepared for that day and some of them actively helped to stoke the …
Something Bad Happened on January 6th, 2021. Initially people couldn’t agree on what it was. Some thought that a large group of citizens assembled to listen to their President’s speech and then walk over to the Capital to take a tour. Others thought that their President’s speech was a call to action to prevent the …
I have tried to keep my comments, on current affairs, in the middle of the political aisle, but recent events are not all political – many are better described within the context of terrorism. I think it is time for me to strip off all the varnish and call it like I see it. Our …
We know that our federal government is dysfunctional. We know that much of that dysfunction is related to the filibuster in the Senate. It is time for “We the People” to make the election of our senators and representatives conditional on their pledge to support a revision to the rules of their respective Legislative body …
Well, here we are again with the talking heads all a twitter over the Supreme Court Opinion to overturn the fifty-year-old legal president known as Roe vs. Wade which sanctioned a women’s right to choose. Many of those talking heads are citing what they believe to be Constitutional text giving Supreme Court Justices “lifetime tenure …
The Reconstruction Era is the period from 1865-1877. Our Civil War was fought between 1861-1865 so it took four years to fight the war and twelve years for the “Reconstruction” – Three times longer for “Reconstruction” than for the war. What was the plan? To be fair, I must offer a disclaimer so that everyone …
The shock of so many mass shooting incidents recently has the talking heads all a twitter. On the left we hear all the invectives to justify new regulations designed to reduce the inventory of guns in the hands of citizens at large. On the right we hear the invectives regarding the 2nd Amendment to our …
This morning our media is filled to overflowing with commentary about a leaked draft of a Supreme Court Opinion dealing with the future of Roe v. Wade. Never mind that this was largely expected given the partisan makeup of the Court. The real story here is not what the Court may be getting ready to …
To date, I have written two books dealing with our Federal Government – A Broken Sausage Grinder; Is Our Government Fundamentally Flawed?, and Our American Story: Fixing the Sausage Grinder. In my research for both books, I have discovered events in our history that were not referenced in my history books. I have also discovered …
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 …
