POLITICS IN AMERICA, A LOVE HATE RELATIONSHIP.
In the 18th and 19th Century, Americans were passionate about politics. Their belief in self government had a different meaning in those days, instead of some libertarian notion of less […]
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THE POLITICS OF THE OBSTRUCTIONIST’S
We are within a week of the 2014 election in America. I get the feeling that very few people really care about who wins. What has happened is that as […]
THE CURRENT STATE OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
As we approach another election year, it might be helpful to try to understand how we got to where we are in American politics and where are we going from […]
FACTION AND LIBERTY. CAN WE FIX OUR BROKEN POLITICAL SYSTEM?
The genius of the Constitution was that 18TH century men created a new system of government. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that our Constitution still endures. It is today, still […]
OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS BROKEN
We live at a time when movement politics stirs the pot of political discourse. While older pols ruefully recall better times when government worked for the people, movement politics is […]
TERM LIMITS
Term limits for Congress is now the trendy idea of the moment. The best term limit is electing someone else, that is why we have elections. If you are not […]
THE SEEDS OF DISUNION III
If today, October 17, 2013, is any indication nothing has been learned by the extremists who brought our government to a close and nearly brought us over the cliff regarding […]
A HOUSE DIVIDED
We have just passed the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s ‘House Divided’ speech. It was given on June 16, 1858. It was a morally courageous speech which probably cost him the […]
Politics From The Middle 