The 2016 Presidential Election has raised a number of good policy ideas for the improvement of the United States society and government. Unfortunately, there is no single candidate that endorses all of the best ideas, and, even more unfortunately, every … Continue reading →
The United States was established to be “a government of the people” and, in Abraham Lincoln’s day, that was still largely true. However, today individual citizens have very little influence over legislation or government expenditures in the United States. Political … Continue reading →
Many people take political parties for granted and assume they are an important part of the democratic process. However, political parties inherently subvert and hijack government and are anti-democratic at their core.
Continue reading →Stage 1 Consciousness: Physical Violence Physical violence is a biological impulse related to threats to survival. Killing others who are a threat to oneself and taking their food and property are often associated with animal behavior, or called primitive behavior. … Continue reading →
A resurgence of ideas of public virtue and principle, rather than politics as usual, is entering American consciousness as a result of a growing awareness of the divergence of law and principle.
Continue reading →The use of legal definition has become a common strategy for legislatures to fund special interests that contribute to political parties.
Continue reading →It is a common misconception to think that, because the U.S. has a democratic system of governance, it will be responsive to the people. At the macro level, where voters have some impact on their representatives, this is true. When the voters get frustrated enough, they can create enough pressure for the representatives to pass or rescind a law. But the laws that create government agencies to address problems usually create hierarchical agencies, responsive to appointed officials and budget appropriations. By nature, they are not responsive to real-world feedback.
Continue reading →One way we can improve the U.S. system of government is to change the nature of U.S. Supreme Court appointments. Anyone watching the appointment process realizes that there is a bitter partisan rivalry in which the money funding Democratic and … Continue reading →
In a December 30 editorial in the New York Times, Georgetown professor of constitutional law talks Louis Michael Seidman wrote about ideas in his book On Constitutional Disobedience, arguing that the failure of the U.S. government lies in archaic and … Continue reading →
Unconstitutional Agencies Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution forbids the existence of any federal agency like the BATF, FBI, TSA, or Homeland Security which trains military or policing activity at the federal level. It clearly says that the … Continue reading →
