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(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, October 26, 2008
Abortion: Government's Choice? Any government having the power to prohibit abortions has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men).

(11 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 19, 2009
Ground the Airbus? We do not know if Air France Flight 447 was brought down by a lightning storm, a failure of speed sensors, rudder problems or pilot error. What we do know is that its plastic tail fin fell off and the plane fell almost seven miles into the ocean killing everyone aboard.

(9 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Gore Presidency: An Alternative History An alternative history about what might have happened in the U.S. had Justice Kennedy voted for Gore rather than Bush

(15 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 16, 2008
Concentration Camps in America: The Consequences of 40 Years of Fear Although Internet reports of the best known concentration camps in America are not supported by the facts, there is abundant evidence that the Bush Administration plans to declare martial law and is busily getting ready to do so. The calendar may say 2008, but, increasingly, we're living in 1984. America may not have concentration camps yet, but we're sure enough working on 'em.

SHARE        Sunday, August 24, 2008
America's Economic Future: Nightmare or Vision? Offers a dynamic vision of the future and offers solutions for the interrelated issues of taxation, social security, retirement, health care and economic stimulus.

(24 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 3, 2008
Betrayed by the Bailout: The Death of Democracy On this date, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. Perhaps democracy in the United States is not dead; if not, it's on its deathbed. Resuscitation in the form of responsible representation is possible, but time is growing short.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 12, 2009
From the Comet and Airbus to the Spaceplane: The Future of Commercial Aviation As commercial aviation becomes increasingly dependent upon computerized digital technology and less reliant upon hands-on human control, we have to consider the crash of Air France Flight 447 into the Atlantic Ocean, with the loss of all aboard, and other similar disasters in the light of our collective experience and expectations.

(10 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 4, 2009
A Smart and Simple Tax It is time to discard our stupid and complex system of taxation and replace it with a smart and simple tax that balances the burden of taxation with the benefits of government.

(10 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government's own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the greatest harm that would result from criminalization would be the injury caused to those arrested for possession.

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 7, 2015
Taxation Without Representation--Dej- vu A decision by the Supreme Court that allows the allocation of voting districts by registered voters rather than all persons will condemn millions of Americans to taxation without representation.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Committees of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom and Secure Good Government If Samuel Adams were alive today, he would be all over the Internet and social media establishing nonpartisan Committees of Correspondence in every community. These committees could demand that every local political candidate, irrespective of party or office, affirms the essential elements of good government and pledges to support these elements, if elected.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 5, 2011
An All-American Retirement System: Building for the Future While Congress bickers and the President dithers, roads are crumbling, bridges are failing, dams are cracking, and water and sewer systems are leaking all across the United States. If that's not enough to worry about, the government is threatening to default on the $2.5 Trillion it has borrowed from the Social Security Trust Fund, and few private employers are offering decent retirement plans.

(16 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 5, 2011
Who Are the Tea Party Patriots? Most people only see the public faces of the Tea Party Patriots: those doing televison interviews, appearing on the covers of magazines, waving from the steps of private jets at political rallies, and who spend the millions of dollars in donations they have raised; but who are the 15 million "patriots" who attend the 1000s of local tea parties across the heartland of America? Answers were sought at the TPP Summit in Phoenix.

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Power of the Mormon Church Over Mitt Romney Born to and raised with privilege, Romney wants it all; he wants to attack Obama's religious principles and he wants to avoid answering questions about the legitimacy of his own religion and how it would affect his decisions, if elected.

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 3, 2010
Elitism and Empathy in American Presidents: Who Cares for the Suffering Children If the President of the United States fails or refuses to take action on behalf of children, the most vulnerable victims of the unlawful wars he continues to fight on behalf of the ruling elites, or the corrupt policies he pursues for their benefit, who shall speak for the children?

(12 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 20, 2007
War Without Win: A White Paper On Iran Instead of attacking Iran, the United States should immediately reestablish diplomatic relations, negotiate unconditionally, and ensure Iran's protection from armed attack by Israel or any other nation under a comprehensive policy that seeks to avoid the expansion of nuclear weapons to Iran and all other nations and to disarm all nations within ten years.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 5, 2017
Retired Educator, WW2 Vet, No Longer Believes Americans are Represented by Their Gov't: Files Petition Mel Lindsey, a 90-year-old World War II veteran and retired educator, no longer believes the American People are represented by their government, and he is doing something about it.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 28, 2011
Ron Paul Endorses National Write-In Presidential Election Protest During a wide-ranging interview prior to taking the stage at the Tea Party Patriot National Summit Conference in Phoenix this week, likely presidential candidate Ron Paul stated he "encouraged a write-in vote" as a protest against the existing corrupt "single party system" consisting of Democrats and Republicans.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 13, 2012
Transformation: Effectuating Democracy by a Voters' Rights Amendment If they are to ever achieve true representative democracy and the freedom and opportunity inherent in its promise, the People of the United States must transform their government, rather than to reform or restore it back to something which will not serve or protect their best interests.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 28, 2010
Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constitution! The U.S. Constituion must be amended to ensure it protects the people against the corporations.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 7, 2015
The Power and Symbolism of Voting What does the Boston Tea Party and Gandhi's Salt March have to do with voting in the United States today? These were symbolic political acts that were effectively used to demonstrate against and defeat the same kind of powerful forces now corrupting American politics.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 2, 2007
A Brief on the Use of Water Torture by American Officials in the War on Terrorism A Brief submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique and its implications in the appointment of Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General of the United States.

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 9, 2016
The Presidency: Character Matters A timely review of the character flaws of the two major party candidates, what these failures portend for the future, and the choices available to the voters.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 24, 2011
A Tale of Three Nations: Freedom, Religion and the Rights of Women As the youth-led Freedom Movement of 2011 spreads rapidly across the Middle East and around the world, one can only wonder what would be happening in Iraq today if the U.S. had not invaded eight years ago. What does the movement portend for the rights of women in other nations, such as Tunisia and in the United States?

(11 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 19, 2010
A Mad Tea Party There are good reasons why the tea partyers are mad; however, their solutions are equally mad.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Marijuana: Legalize--Don't Advertise Given the ways of capitalism and the greed of corporate America, how long will it be before highway billboards, radio and television advertisements, and Internet pop-up ads begin to promote the latest and best in marijuana products? "This bud's for you" will take on a whole new meaning.

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 18, 2015
A Nuturing Society vs. Socialism If the title of this article began with "socialism," many readers would click past without reading it--even though a majority of Americans want a government that nurtures their families and society. The word "socialism" has taken on a negative meaning in the minds of most Americans. So, how does one define what the voters of the United States really want from their government

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 6, 2010
The Youth Vote and the Election of 2012 Looking across the piles of dead and wounded on the political battlefield at the vast hoard of mercenaries gathering to administer the coup de graĉe to representative democracy, paid for by unlimited secret corporate financing, there is only one reserve force with the motivation, power and loyalty to defeat the army of fascism --" those who have most to lose --" the youth of America.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 22, 2008
The Triple Whammy of Bigotry in the 2008 Election We will soon know whether Barack Obama and the American people have suffered a single, double, or triple whammy and we will all suffer from the assault. Single Whammy - Overt and Latent Racism; Double Whammy - Religion, Sex and Other Prejudices; Triple Whammy - Class Disenfranchisement

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 22, 2011
Airport Screening Policy: Repression or Discretion Google "TSA stupidity" and you will find that almost one-and-a-half million websites have something to say about the subject. If the United States is to avoid another major terrorist attack on its air transportation system without placing greater restrictions on the civil liberties of air travelers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had better get smart.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 31, 2008
Holding Murderers Accountable: The Case Against Bush, Cheney, et al Those whom we empower by our vote to either serve us in Congress or to lead our nation as president have a duty to use the power we give them to ensure accountability for its abuse. They have a duty to focus and to maintain attention on the most egregious and deadly violations of our laws and to not allow murder to go unpunished.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 17, 2010
The Age of Space-Solar Energy: Innovation in the Public Interest The first nation that captures and effectively makes use of space-solar energy will dominate the world energy market for generations to come and will provide its citizens with a much healthier and a far more secure society.

(23 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 10, 2011
Reflections on the Holocaust Denial Case As we witness the increased militarization of the U.S. and its acceptance of torture and illegal wars, we must reflect back on the fate of the last nation that believed it could do as it pleased.

(21 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 14, 2012
Challenging America's Plutocracy: The Power of Individual Voters to Transform Their Government The Voters' Rights Amendment (USVRA), which provides all of the People with the right to cast effective votes and guarantees that each write-in vote is counted, is intended to serve as a catalyst for the discontent that is widespread among American voters. It will operate for the benefit of every citizen and it will serve as a common cause for everyone, irrespective of their social, political or religious beliefs.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 17, 2017
A Financial Toll Tax: Transform, Not Reform, the Tax System Transformimg the taxation system into a tiny financial toll tax on the movement of all money in the economy, effectively transferring the tax burden from workers and small business owners to the wealthy, large corporations, and financial institutions.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 8, 2013
The Failure of War as an Instrument of Foreign Policy: A More Effective Solution Making war against nation states and their people no longer works. Unstable and undemocratic countries are usually controlled by individuals and cabals against whom military force ends up harming their own domestic victims more than the entrenched leadership, and new regimes offer little improvement.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 11, 2016
The Right to Vote, Effectively The USVRA is far more than a set of constitutional amendments that would curtail these anti-democratic practices. Its ratification"-and the movement that forces it to happen"-would create a dramatic transformation of the United States government into finally becoming a true representative democracy.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 18, 2008
Valuable, Voluntary and Educational National Youth Service Irrespective of who's anointed at the presidential coronation in January, many more Americans will soon be performing national service, including compulsory military tours of duty in the never-ending War Against Terror and the soon-to-be-announced Wars Against Sedition, Starvation, Unemployment, and Internal Insurrection, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 24, 2016
Who Should Make Political Policy, the People or the Politicians? Given the opportunity, the American People are not only capable of charting their own future, but they are also smart, wise, and brave enough to seize the chance to do so. There is no alternative--the People of the United States of America will either take control of their own government, or their experiment in self government will ultimately fail.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 14, 2017
Avoiding Anoither War in North Korea With the most mentally unstable person ever to occupy the presidency having the most powerful military force in history at his unfettered disposal, Americans must ask themselves whether or not they approve of another war being launched in their name. If not, they must arrive at a solution to avoid their personal complicity with the consequences of their failure to act.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Race for Space Solar Energy The radiation plume from melting reactor cores and the smoke of burning spent fuel rods threaten the lives of the unborn; yet, they point in the direction of the only logical alternative to these failed policies -- the generation of an inexhaustible, safe, pollution-free supply of energy from outer space.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Explaining the U.S. Voters' Rights Amendment An explanation of the U.S. Voters' Rights Amendment which is a solution to the failure of the U.S. government.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 6, 2016
Police Shootings: Law, Policy, and Accountability Learning from police shootings, such as what occurred in El Cajon, can lead to enlightened solutions and a commitment by the People and their Police to achieve a peaceful outcome. A thoughtful response may be more difficult to arrive at, accept, and implement than the simplistic commentaries being tossed out during the 24-hour news cycle, but it is essential if peace is to prevail in the Nation's communities.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 14, 2009
Fear of Crime and Things to Come The fear of crime strikes all who live with its dread, as well as those who are personally victimized. Fear keeps us from doing what we want to do; it causes us to distrust friends and to view strangers with prejudice; and it can trick us into trading freedom for a false sense of security.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 1, 2011
A Voters' Rights Amendment to Unify Occupiers and Tea Partiers The most basic issue that Occupiers and Tea Partiers can readily agree upon is a Voters' Rights Amendment to the Constitution which insures that the future of the United States is decided by its voters rather than by the corporate and wealthy elite, which currently manipulates and controls the voter's representatives.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 11, 2017
A Vision of America's Future With Ratification of the USVRA A vision of how the future of America will look after the U.S. Voters' Rights Amendment is enacted and ratified.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 11, 2008
Economic Chaos and Political Survival No matter how deeply we ordinary citizens dig into our pockets, we cannot financially compete with the powerful special interests. No matter how well we organize, we cannot match the influence of the financial and political insiders. No matter how often we march and picket, they will always beat us through the side door into the corridors of power.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 8, 2009
No Victors in the War on Dissent Among the wars currently being fought by the American government is one in which there can be no winners. The "war on terrorism" has spawned an internal "war on dissent" in which everyone loses.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 25, 2016
Transformation: A Student-Led Mass Political Movement Young people around the world have been at the vanguard of recent mass political movements. Are the students of America willing and capable of leading a peaceful uprising in the United States to compel the constitutional changes required to transform their government?

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 1, 2016
The Scandal of Voter Suppression The scandal of voter suppression corrupts the core of representative democracy, and the quality and effectiveness of political representation is directly related to the percentage of voter participation. Unless representatives are selected by the greatest number and broadest range of voters possible, the processes of government will not reflect the true will of the People.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Preventing Gun Violence

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 14, 2012
The Separate Security Interests of the United States and Israel A history of Iran and its conflict with the United States and Israel over its uranium enrichment program, a discussion of the likelihood of war between the parties and a peaceful solution that offers a comprehensive nuclear weapons policy for all nations.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 1, 2008
Making Smarter Cars Instead of Stupid Decisions With sales grinding to a halt and their credit ratings plummeting, the Big Three cannot borrow sufficient funds in the credit markets to survive. Like drunks on a freeway, they are racing down the fast lane without a seat belt, holding a bottle in one hand and flipping off the public with the other, daring everyone else to stop them before they crash.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 9, 2015
The Pornography of Hatred With each of the last three mass shootings involving individuals acting under the influence of racist ideology, this article is a timely study of the effect hate speech--particularly on the Internet and social media--has on our lives, and what can be done about it.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Voter Empowerment - Not a New Party Rather than a violent revolution, American voters have the duty and obligation to peacefully evolve a new system of government that will better serve to provide freedom, justice and prosperity to all who share this fragile planet.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Iraq War Trial The Democrats now have a golden opportunity to show the world how a democratic republic should work and what freedom's really all about. Democrats can fulfill the will of the people and do what's right by immediately holding hearings to establish whether Congress should fund an illegal war, and if so how much and under what conditions.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 27, 2011
Netroots Nation Talks About Voters Evolt! Interviews regarding a National Policy Referendum and write-in ballot for president were conducted at the Netroots Nation Conference held in June 2011 in Minneapolis.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 9, 2008
ROBOCOPS: PROFESSIONAL POLICING OF POLITICAL PROTEST Last week, hundreds of protesters in St. Paul were arrested outside the Republican National Convention by helmeted police officers wearing black uniforms and full body armor reminiscent of scenes from the 1987 movie, RoboCop featuring: "Part man. Part machine. All Cop. The future of law enforcement."

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 13, 2008
Deliver Us From Chaos: Ten Political Commandments From a political standpoint, chaos theory requires us to consider the effect of a vice president flapping his lips on an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf or in the former U.S.S.R. republic of Georgia on starting World War III or Cold War II.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 1, 2016
Confirming Supreme Court Justices and Electing Presidents Although history will record that congressional Republicans have opposed virtually every program advanced by Obama throughout his administration, including their very own health care plan, history also reveals what happened during a similarly contested election and "lame-duck" nomination of a Supreme Court justice shortly after the United States was founded.

SHARE        Sunday, June 17, 2018
An Ode to My Father, Samuel Hubert Cox A poem written in honor of all fathers in the lineages of two revolutionary war patriots, as a message to all of the cousins of the author who share Solomon and Samuel Cox as grand fathers.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 8, 2013
Paying the Toll On the Economic Highway The political coma of the U.S. government induced by Congress and its failure to represent those who elect it can ultimately be traced to the unfair and complex system of income taxation. Better for the country and more equitable for its taxpayers would be a toll tax on the movement of all money along the nation's economic highway.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 18, 2008
A Vision for Change: An American Energy Policy Highlights the pitfalls of Obama's energy policy and offers an alternative and imaginative vision of an America that decided to generate the energy to power its national highways from outer space.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Write-in Voting and Political Protest If America is to continue as a representative democracy, it must transform its government into one that actually represents and cares for those who elect it--rather than the corporations and financial elites who are now paying for election campaigns and bribing the candidates.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 15, 2009
Extremism and Suffering Children What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is "children," and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 12, 2011
An American Suicide Terrorist The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political "battleground" of American politics. His YouTube postings and "goodby" phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos of Islamist martyrs.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 2, 2011
Voterism: A Government for The New Millennium Voterism is the political belief that a legitimate government must be composed of and created by the voters who elect it, and that the primary purpose of such a government is to care for the needs, aspirations and interests of those who elect it.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 12, 2006
Energy For The New Millennium An alternative to $4 gasoline and enslavement to corrupt energy companies and undemocratic governments.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 25, 2012
A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress The Vice President should actually occupy the constitutional office of President of the Senate every working day.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 9, 2008
America Has Already Changed Barack Obama campaigned on a platform of "Change"; however, the fact of his election proves that America has already changed.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 19, 2012
Small Business Owners and Labor: The Backbone of the Nation Small business owners and workers are not represented by either political party, and the Voters' Rights Amendment will give them a voice in their government.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 24, 2007
A Just and Fair Tax Wouldn't it be more sensible and much fairer to simply tax the movement of money in our economy? Not a sales tax, not a value added tax, not a flat income tax, but rather a simple toll on every financial transaction that occurs within our economic system.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 19, 2016
Statecraft vs. Politics As Usual Recognizing that partisan politics is not the same as statecraft, can anything be done to attract statesmen (gender neutral) to stand for elections, address the true issues, and to represent the interests of voters? Must the financial elite and corporations be allowed to continue their wholesale corruption of kowtowing politicians who prostrate themselves before stacks of campaign cash and pander their elective offices.

SHARE        Monday, January 29, 2007
ONE HEALTH CARE POLICY – INDIVISIBLE – WITH BENEFITS FOR ALL As a part of a comprehensive health care policy, we should establish a National Health Academy, whose graduates become professional officers in a National Health Corps.

SHARE        Monday, January 15, 2007
Hitler's Bulge -- Bush's Surge A comparison between the administrations of Hitler and Bush and the Battle of the Bulge and Bush's Surge

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 19, 2012
A Law Enforcement Alternative to War in Syria Why not adopt a national policy of avoiding war against other nations and their innocent people as a matter of principle? Instead, to confront the danger posed by foreign dictators, such as Assad, who threaten its national interests, the United States should adopt an alternative policy based upon a law enforcement model.

SHARE        Thursday, October 23, 2008
A Dream Ballot for 2008 Can you even dream about a National Ballot that will establish your authority, one in which you, rather than politicians, create the policy guidelines for your government and you, rather than hacked computers, decide whom you want to implement your policy?

SHARE        Saturday, April 15, 2006
This George Is No Washington A compare and contrast between George Washington and George W. Bush

SHARE        Sunday, March 14, 2010
A Highway for Peace A vision in which the elusive "roadmap for peace" in Israel-Palestine is replaced by a concrete "Highway for Peace."

SHARE        Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Make Scholars -- Not War Is the education of our children so critical to the future of our society that we should think of it in the same terms as national defense? What can we do to preserve public education, the very institution that set our nation on the path to greatness?

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