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In need of bankruptcy?

Relevance: 10%      Posted on: December 11, 2008

Looking for something to be thankful for? How about the fact that you are not too big to fail? There are advantages to not being rich, or all that important. The rules don’t bend for you. That means you have a good chance of keeping your dignity, maintaining your self-responsibility.…

Time for a Rethink

Relevance: 10%      Posted on: August 12, 2014

The Republican Party seems to be losing ground. The latest and perhaps most interesting journalistic analysis of the fix the GOP is in can be found within an August 7, 2014 New York Times article by Robert Draper, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” One obvious challenge to the party…

Weak Link in Chain of Corruption

Relevance: 10%      Posted on: November 14, 2022

How do you replace anti-child school board members with persons of common sense? That is, with those who favor educating children rather than indoctrinating them with socialism and racism? This is not a battle that all parents need to fight directly on behalf of their own children. Those who can…

(B)Rand Recognition

Relevance: 10%      Posted on: August 28, 2013

Is the Republican Party bent on defining itself out of existence? Recent squabbles between the neoconservative Old Guard (Chris Christie, Peter King) and the scions (political as well as biological) of Ron Paul suggest this. The Republican Party exists as an alliance of several distinct ideological groups: social conservatives, libertarianish…

Thirty-Three Billion Balloons in a Strange Land

Relevance: 9%      Posted on: May 1, 2013

Our dysfunctional and surly Congress magically came together, last week, skipping across the political minefield of the sequester. Days earlier, the Obama Administration had announced a cut of air traffic controllers’ workload (one working day in ten) to meet the sequester’s requirement for a 4 percent reduction in the FAA…

Return to Republicanism?

Relevance: 9%      Posted on: October 1, 2014

I’m a republican. You’re a republican. It used to be that most Democrats were also republicans. Today, I’m not even sure that most Republicans are republicans. But I’m hoping you are, whether you vote R or D or something else. Or don’t vote at all. This is not an essay…

The Court v. The People

Relevance: 8%      Posted on: July 2, 2013

This is the season for major Supreme Court decisions, and a fine time to rethink the union’s constitution — and the document, too, which we capitalize: The Constitution of the United States of America. Now is especially propitious, in that recent decisions by the Robed Nine are solidifying a social…