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...
Government
It is clear from the Constitution that we were not meant to have an enormous, world-straddling military. That what military we did possess should used as a defense mechanism and not a tool of global dominance. The founders were quite...
An American Renaissance – Turning Our Military Industrial Capacity Into Entrepreneurial & ...
If I were going to suggest a series of books that President Barack Obama and his administration read it would be three novels by Kim Stanley Robinson. It is a tale set in a world with rapid climate change dominating...
Forty Signs of Rain
As we observe another Memorial Day with the lives of the American military still being wasted on imperial folly, some thoughts occurred to me about the "Commander in Chief" meme, our "projected" military capacity and our founding documents. The constitution is pretty...
Standing Armies – A Constitutional Dilemma
We are seeing something this year that has been long anticipated but never fully realized in a modern America. The last time a governing majority came together in this country was under FDR. He served four terms and forever altered...
A Governing Majority
I had an epiphany yesterday while talking to my ultra-hip cousin who lives in Harlem and is a big Obama supporter. We were discussing how it is that the traditional corporate media outlets continue to act as if today's Internet...
Politics 3.0
I came across a story earlier this month that really pissed me off. I realize that it is from USA Today, which makes it automatically suspect for many, but the core study that the story speaks to is very disturbing indeed....
The Graduation “Gap”
118 I really had no formal opinion about Bill Clinton until this campaign started. Or Hillary Clinton for that matter. I knew she was a former First Lady who became a senator from New York. Beyond that, I hadn't heard a...