Politics
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...
Case #1: Make it harder for citizens to vote by mail. Republican legislatures around the country are passing bills to make it more difficult to vote by mail by requiring new applications each voting cycle, increasing ID rules, etc. The problem is that except for...
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,...
THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT GURANTEE FREE SPEECH! That is absolutely correct. The phrase “free speech” never appears in the US Constitution or any of the amendments to it. What does appear, and only ONCE is “Congress shall make no law … abridging the FREEDOM OF...
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...
December 1940. Hitler had finalized his plans for Vichy, France, the German invasion of Russia and the invasion of Greece. Dionne Warwick, Frank Zappa, Richard Pryor, Nick Buoniconti and Phil Ochs were born. In Oxford, England a police constable named Albert...
LEAVING THE WHO. THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN So, Mr. Trump has announced that we are pulling out of the WHO. He claims that, in his opinion, the WHO did not do enough to alert the US on the problems associated with COVID-19; they didn’t do it early enough, and they relied...
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....