Posts related primarily to the Legislative Branch of our Federal Government.
It is interesting and, I think, informative to compare “white privilege” in our United States to “systemic racism” in our United States. Both of these elements in our National character are widely known and widely misunderstood, but they are mostly misunderstood by white folks. That’s right; the very people who enjoy the benefits of “white …
Yesterday, January 6th, 2021, Our President showed us just how far he would go to overthrow our Federal Government and remain in power. Yesterday was the culmination of his lies that all led us to the events we witnessed. He stoked the flames of radical insurrection in his legions of supporters and invited them to …
When I think about our system of laws, I think of a pyramid. All of our laws are linked one to another up and down that pyramid with the United States Constitution at the apex and the local regulations at the base. Generally speaking, one law cannot cause change to occur higher up the pyramid, …
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 …
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 …
Perhaps you are one of the people that think it would be fair to make Washington D.C. a State. Then the people who live there would be able to have Representatives in the House of Representatives and Senators in the Senate just like all the current fifty States. After all, we’re all supposed to be …
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 …
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 …
