The New Enemy
It has been written that the difference between conservatives and liberals is the world view that these two groups have. Conservatives view the world as a dangerous place and human beings as...
View Article"Open Primary" in California
As part of the budget netotiations this year, the California Legislature has placed several initiatives on a special election to be held in May. One of them changes the primary election in California....
View ArticleExxon for President?
Recently, in deciding a case involving an independent campaign expenditure, the Supreme Court asserted (i.e., went out of its way to declare) that a corporation is a "person" with regard to the First...
View ArticlePositive Feedback in our unstable economic system
I have just finished a short article and posted it on my blog in which I argue that the world's economic system is like a control system with positive feedback and is, therefore, unstable. The...
View ArticleRepealing Citizens United
“Repeal Citizens United” is the campaign slogan of the effort underway to collect signatures on the issue of repealing a decision of the Supreme Court about two years ago. The decision was that a...
View ArticleHilary Clinton disappoints me
Being a Democrat is to me a family tradition. My parents and my grandfathers were Democrats. My father taught me the virtues of the Democratic Party. He concede that both of the two major parties...
View ArticleEducated Idiots among the Supremes
Our Supreme Court comprises nine justices: Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia, Kennedy, Sotomayor, Kagan, Ginsberg, and Breyer. The first five have been the voting majority in recent cases involving...
View ArticleGooseflaw
My friend and I were discussing the current todo about the Confederate Flag and the tragic deaths of several people as a result of encounters with police forces when I asked the question, what name to...
View ArticleKeeping them out
It’s happening again. Desperate people, fleeing from persecution by the Nazis in Germany, were turned away when their escape ship tried to let them enter Florida. They were, after all, different from...
View ArticleBarking up the wrong tree
Every day I receive several e-mails begging me to join the “Undo Citizens United” group. The idea is presented that if enough people join the group and if enough money is collected from them then...
View ArticleBernie or Hillary?
Several times a day, it seems, I am asked to commit for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton as my choice for President. I have not yet made up my mind and I will wait a while before deciding. In fact,...
View ArticleConfessions of a Former Racist
At least I hope I’m a former racist. I know that as a young boy in grade school and later in high school, I was assured by my father that the European civilization, of which the United States was a...
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