12 Articles

Saturday, February 14, 2009
Economic Stimulus Bill Fails Infrastructure and Jobs
(6 comments) By marginalizing infrastructure spending in favor of ineffective tax cuts, President Obama and Congress have enginered economic stimulus legislation that will fail to address our infrastructure needs and also will fail to create enough jobs. This economic stimulus legislation is doomed to failure, and the failure will be blamed properly on the Democrats.

Monday, January 12, 2009
False Assumptions about the Presumption of Innocence
(3 comments) The presumption of innocence is not a mandate that is imposed on all social discourse. It is not logical to assert, as a statement of fact, that a person is innocent until he/she has been proven to be guilty because it is possible for an innocent person to be convicted of a crime and it is possible for a guilty person to be acquitted of a crime.

Sunday, November 2, 2008
BLUEPRINT FOR A NON-VIOLENT REVOLUTION
(4 comments) No political issues can be resolved adequately if large numbers of eligible voters think that the elections are rigged or may be rigged, and no political issues can be resolved adequately if the current campaign-finance system of legalized bribery continues.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
FEAR-MONGERING ABOUT MARTIAL LAW
(4 comments) Distrust of our own government is well-founded, but recently, many people have abandoned rational thought before commenting on various websites about martial law.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
GODFATHER PART IV: THE BAILOUT
The economic bailout/sellout agreement that was rejected by the House of Representatives was more of an extortion racket than a compromise.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
THE DEMOCRATS ARE WILLING SCHMUCKS ON THE BAILOUT BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
Now, the Democrats are allowing themselves to be out-maneuvered by the Republicans so that the Democrats are doing the heavy lifting for the unpopular economic bailout/sellout, and this economic bailout/sellout will be even more unpopular when it inevitably goes sour.

Saturday, June 21, 2008
FISA in the Land of 9-11 Changed Everything
(5 comments) Yesterday was a day that will live in infamy due to the vote in the House of non-Representatives for FISA legislation that cripples the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and also enables Congress to usurp the powers of the Judicial Branch by granting retroactive immunity to the telecommunication providers that assisted with the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Friday, May 2, 2008
REAL CAMPAIGN-FINANCE REFORM
(3 comments) Because wealthy donors (particularly corporate interests) exert a pernicious influence that is extremely out of proportion to their population in the political process, we have a serious problem in need of a solution, and I think that my proposal for campaign-finance reform offers an innovative solution.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Fog of FISA
Most reasonable people understand that the individual rights which are protected by the Constitution are not absolute, even when those rights are expressed in language that is uncluttered and unequivocal, but we should be exceedingly skeptical when someone is torturing the English language to explain why it is legal for the government to engage in activity that ostensibly is prohibited by the Constitution.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
THE DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO WANDER IN THE DESERT

Friday, February 15, 2008
The Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity: FISA and the Bill of Rights
(1 comments) Congress has been struggling to craft a more permanent revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, revealing the competition between Democrats and Republicans as to who has a monopoly on contempt for the Constitution. Our so-called "war on terror" is an endless war; therefore, we are unwise to jettison essential elements of our Constitution because the thought of Islamic terrorists induces us to wet our pants.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
FREE TRADE AND THAT GIANT SUCKING SOUND
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