PARLIAMENT OF WHORES
“Parliament of Whores” is a book that almost wasn’t written. Yet it is, debatably, the only civics textbook you’ll ever need. The Rodney Dangerfield film Easy …
SEVERE WARNING
This week I am issuing a severe warning of an event that seems to be creeping ever, and inexorably, closer, on a daily basis. It …
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
The jokes about U.S Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his totally irresponsible beliefs and actions on vaccines, have been …
PLATYPUS DIPLOMACY
Before koalas became Australia’s animal ambassadors, the country tried platypus diplomacy. In 1943, a camouflaged ship set off from Australia to England carrying top secret …
CLINICAL CONDITION
This article, written by Brent Molnar, identifies a well-documented clinical condition that fits Donald Trump’s erratic behavior to a tee: This analysis has been endorsed …
LEGISLATION AND THE COURTS
I am in the middle of reading a book by Stephen Breyer, called Reading the Constitution, and it triggered a thought about the relationship between …
WATER
I have often thought that the next world war will be fought over water. Not territory, nuclear arms, dominant economies, exploitation of space, Antarctica or …
AMERICAN FOREIGN AND DEFENSE POLICY
I thought this was a considered and succinct report on current American foreign and defense policy under the chaotic leadership – if you can call …
CONGRESSIONAL REFORM
Congressional Reform has been talked about for decades, if not from immediately after the U.S. Congress was first convened a couple of hundred years ago. …
U.S. CITIZENS
People born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens by birth. However, this kind of citizenship is not the same as the kind of citizenship that …