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 …
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 …
A friend used to say; “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” He was so right. Over the years I have witnessed this sort of behavior repeatedly. Another friend had a different way of phrasing the proverb as it related to the behavior of management at his company when …
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 …
Over roughly the last week, we have been learning about a new variant, Omicron, of the Covid-19 first discovered in South Africa. Almost immediately the United States announced the imposition of travel restrictions on people traveling from South Africa and several other Southern African countries. Within a day or two we heard that the new …
We don’t bump into Elbridge Gerry’s name every day, but we do bump into his legacy and his legacy is all tangled up in much of the designs of our Federal Government. Elbridge Thomas Gerry was born in Marblehead, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America on July 17, 1744. Both of his parents were descendants …
