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It seems so simple. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. We know the sex of the baby immediately at birth and we write that down on the birth certificate. Done. No questions, no issues, that is the “fact”. However…. Like most things in the real world, it...
Do you wonder where the most gun murders occur? If you listen to politicians, it occurs “somewhere else”. Here is the data from the CDC for the most recent years. The gun-related murder rates for people of all ages, recorded as murders per 100,000 people in the 50...
“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....
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...
As we approach the final Presidential debate this week, we can expect to hear about how great the economy was prior to the pandemic. I chose to look at the data comparing the first three years of the Trump economy to the final 3 years of the Obama economy. I have...
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....
Why Trump, Alabama and Dorian is such an important event The last few days have seen a fascinating glimpse into Donald Trump. It is a perfect, concise and encapsulated example of why those of us who oppose the current president are so concerned and fearful of what he...