Politics / General
Let me begin by stating that I fall on the side of free speech. Regulating speech will never be safe. Liberals will apply a wide range of personal perspectives to attempt to restrict offensive speech. Try to think of a joke that doesn’t poke fun at or offend some...
“Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.” Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer was born in NYC IN 1915. He worked in Radio in the 1930’s when he changed his name to Fred Friendly and moved to television in the 1950’s working with Edward...
THE MOST PRO-BUSINESS LEGISLATION IN DECADES Lost in the political posturing about the Build-Back-Better Act currently being negotiated and expected to pass, is the fact that it is the single greatest pro-business piece of legislation considered in the past 50 years....
There is no clause in the U.S. Constitution that speaks to any form of filibuster. It is only a Senate Rule (Rule 22). And the form of ending a filibuster by a “cloture” vote dates back only to 1917. From the Senate website: The Senate tradition of unlimited debate...
No, it isn’t the legislative history, nor the scandals real and imagined, it is actually far worse. Since inauguration we have seen a very ugly chain of statements from Republicans. Ron Johnson said that he wasn’t frightened by the peaceful Trump protestors on Jan. 6,...
Now, I am not an attorney, but the Constitution was written so that most educated people could read it and understand it. So, here goes… For all of you Originalists out there, let’s take a look at the US Constitution and Impeachment. There are only SIX instances of...
I think that it is time for me to take a stance on the issue of whether, if the Democrats win the White House and the Senate, they should expand the Supreme Court to 11 justices. I do not want to equivocate on this issue, so I have used the Republican arguments to...
As the president has said many times about almost every foreign country in the world regarding trade, “they are ripping us off”. What he means is that the trade imbalance with almost every other country is negative; we buy more from them than we sell to them. Mr....
A modest proposal on preventing the poor people of Central America from becoming a burden to the United States of America It is sad to walk through the urban areas of this great country, and see the streets crowded with illegal immigrants surviving off of the public...
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, OH MY!!! Well, well, well. Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of NYC. I have heard for 9 months from the Republican faithful about Mr. Trump: “He was elected by the voters; give him a chance; let’s see what he does.” Mr. Trump won the...
In recent days we have seen Mr. Trump cancel funding for major projects authorized by Congressional act and signed into law by the President. We have seen the cancellation of funding for wind power plants, for a rail tunnel between NJ and NY, for approved and...
On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM Claude Gerstle wrote: Despite a lot of research, effort and money leading to improved student outcome in secondary schools over the last 20 years, all the gains have occurred in the top half of students with the bottom half and...