Jason Everett Miller

Very few things in life are as certain as political paradigms refusing to change absent massive, and sometimes violent, action by ordinary people in sustained grassroots efforts measured in decades rather than years. Electing Barack Obama didn't make that rule invalid. ...

“…go out and make me do it.”

This entry was tagged Alice Paul Barack Obama Bipartisan Congress Fringe Grassroots Progressive We The People and posted on January 24, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

"We have been told that we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant." - Barack Obama, New Hampshire Primary Concession Speech, January 8, 2008 So it was then and so it...

Preaching to a Choir of Cynics

This entry was tagged Apathy Barack Obama Change Fringe Partisan We The People and posted on January 22, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

Back during the heated days of the presidential primary race, just after I moved to Barack Obama when my first choice Dennis Kucinich dropped out, the whole "Obamabot" thing was born through the steadfast insistence of Hillary's more creative supporters. ...

Obamanation

This entry was tagged Barack Obama Congress Democratic Party Partisan Progressive Republican Party We The People and posted on January 21, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

I was talking with my friend yesterday before going to see Book of Eli (excellent film) and wondered aloud when it became commonly accepted that governments at the local, state and federal level would bleed red ink as a matter of...

Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money

This entry was tagged Apathy Congress Democratic Party Partisan Republican Party We The People and posted on January 18, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

Par for the course in Pax Americana holds that if a law is not in keeping with the current junta's notion of what is legal they simply go around it as if it didn't even exist. Or change the law...

Posse Comitatus Act(ors)

This entry was tagged Constitution Local Police Posse Comitatus US Military War On Drugs and posted on January 13, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

For the last 40 years, America has lived George Orwell's worst nightmare. It was a bit more subtle than Orwell imagined, but our domination by powerful interests has been no less complete than the dystopian world the author described in...

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

This entry was tagged Bipartisan Change Progressive We The People and posted on January 7, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

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If you haven't seen Food, Inc. and still eat at fast food restaurants, you might want to ignore this blog or skip the trailer as neither will make that McBurger sit any easier. The film was almost enough to make...

Food, Inc.

This entry was tagged Activism Change Food Inc. Health Care Reform Industrial Food System Progressive We The People Whole Foods and posted on January 5, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

In 1795, just before being tossed into a French prison for not supporting the execution of Louis the XVI, Thomas Paine wrote the book that would be his downfall. The Age of Reason was a critical look at The Bible...

Revisiting the Age of Reason

This entry was tagged Age of Reason Common Sense Evolution Religion Thomas Paine and posted on January 3, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

Analysis & Opinion on the American Experiment