What Do You Do With A College Football Coach With the Following Record: 3-8; 0-11; 0-11; 2-10; 2-5? You fire him. Of course. Duke University has fallen on hard times on the football field for, oh, let’s say the better part of the past 18 years. Really for most of the last quarter century. Make […]
According to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School and the author of this in-depth report by Mr. Justin Levitt called “The Truth About Voter Fraud,” there is nothing to worry about whatsoever with the American voting system. America has no problem with voting fraud! Whew! Don’t you feel better already? Which, if […]
Yes ma’am. You heard that ‘torectly as they say (sometimes) in the South. Americans spent enough time and effort complying with government regulations to total $1.8 trillion of our roughly $15 trillion national GDP. (Source: Small Business Administration) During the same year, the entire American manufacturing industry made $1.7 trillion worth of: airplanes, cars, furniture, clothes, […]
What happens to the deficit? It could go down according to ‘many’ respected observers. It could go up according to ‘many’ other respected observers. You are going to hear the Democrats wail about how repeal of the mandate is going to ‘increase the deficit’. Republicans will say that it will ‘decrease the deficit’. ‘(I don’t) […]
What do all of these convoluted unemployment data figures mean every month when they come out and every talking head on the tube starts yapping about them like they are some sort of expert? If you are recent college grad facing an uncertain job market, it means one thing: Something ain’t working right. If you […]
“The Supreme Court can not strike down laws as unconstitutional!” So said President Obama this past Monday when asked about whether he thought the Supreme Court will overturn the Obama Health Care individual mandate. “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law […]
The truly silly season in politics is upon us now in full force. You see it arise when Republicans start arguing over contraception (because they don’t want to talk about reforming/reducing 55%+ of the budget that is in Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid). You also see it arise when Democrats start waving the bloody shirt of ‘increasing taxes only […]
I saw an interesting article asking what would happen if a person wanted to leave Medicare and got to wondering: ‘Is it ‘constitutional’ to force everyone who is aged 65 or older into and then stay on Medicare even if they don’t want to or can afford their own non-government-run and paid-for health care coverage?’ (You can […]
Here’s the quaint little diagram most textbooks have taught American schoolchildren over the last century about the so-called ‘checks and balances’ in the American democratic republic system. Looks simple, right? It almost looks like a ‘peace-and-love’ symbol from the early 1970’s. It is also vastly ‘wrong’ when considering just exactly what sort of government James […]
The GOP debate in New Hampshire, which might have been one of the best educational lessons on political philosophy and constitutional interpretation you may see this year, repeatedly brought up the question of: ‘Who is the TRUE conservative?’ in this bunch. To answer that question, we think you have to go back to the Founders. […]
