Politics

It is said that the best government is a benevolent dictatorship.  Maybe, for a while.  The concept of democracy is superior but it sure has been abused, counterfeited, and wasted…

This topic was first visited in a February 15, 2019 blog.  However, since the Democratic campaign has failed to offer any substance on it and given the Republicans’ stone silence,…

The Hoover Dam, completed c. 1935, a year ahead of schedule at a cost of $49 Million ($900 Million, today), along with President Eisenhower’s Interstate highway system, was American infrastructure…

More useful than the Hunger Games reality TV “debates”, would be some kind of central clearing house (e.g., website) that lists each candidate’s position on pertinent topics.  Let the candidate…

Fact-checkers note that the US president has lied publicly well over 10,000 times.  It is ironic that this same fellow invented the term, “fake news” – a reprehensible concept that…

One of the great battles of the Constitutional Convention was about government representation among small states vs big states.  The Electoral College was one outcome of that issue.  So was…

NBC’s “Democrat Debate” looked more like the Hunger Games than a public service to sort out the candidates.  The moderators gave uneven time to the candidates, the candidates interrupted and…

Although most of his departments lack permanent leaders and he has no coherent policies, the one thing Donald Trump is accomplishing is judge appointments, including two to the Supreme Court. …