Analysis & Opinion on the American Experiment

Government

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

From 1919 to 1933, we conducted a national experiment in drug prohibition. The drug of choice at that time (besides marijuana and opium) was alcohol. The 18th Amendment made it illegal and sparked off a bloody war that only the...

Another Unconstitutional War

This entry was tagged Apathy Congress Constitution War On Drugs We The People and posted on January 1, 2010 by Jason Everett Miller

The Constitution is quite clear on matters of war. We were not meant to have an enormous, world-straddling military hegemony. What military we did possess was meant as a defense mechanism only and not a tool of global dominance. The...

An American Renaissance

This entry was tagged Congress Constitution Evolution Non Profit US Military and posted on December 31, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

In my previous post, I explored the notion that we live in a shared illusionary state that keeps us from truly understanding the reality of our situation. Americans have convinced ourselves that we have zero control over our country much...

Use Your Illusion II

This entry was tagged Activism Apathy Grassroots We The People and posted on December 20, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller

In a country raised on blood and reared on myth, the notion that we are victims of a shared illusionary reality seems clear to me. America only likes mirrors when we are forcing other regimes to look into them at...

Use Your Illusion

This entry was tagged Apathy Democracy Turnout We The People and posted on December 19, 2009 by Jason Everett Miller