Why is the right to vote NOT protected by the Constitution?
The United States Constitution has no provision guaranteeing the right of every citizen to vote. In the days of the founding fathers, of course, voting was essentially restricted to the...
View ArticleCognitive dissonance - the UN treaty on the Disabled and the TPP
Cognitive dissonance is the ability of certain brains to simultaneously hold contradictory beliefs. OK, I think there oughta be enough $5 words in that first sentence to scare away the trolls. Now I...
View ArticleRest in Peace, Dave Brubeck
They're jammin' in heaven In fives and elevens'Cuz Brubeck's arrived With that odd-meter jive.
View ArticleReince Prebus' updated Gettysburg Address
I was reading an article on Think Progress yesterday by Ian Millhiser about how the RNC wants to devise a different way of counting electoral votes, to make a Democratic Victory in ANY future election...
View ArticleA new low for the NY news-media.
Honest to Godfrey Daniel, people, sometimes I think I'd have more respect for them if they'd just say "Hey - we got nothin' tonight ... why don'tch'a watch a Seinfeld re-run or somethin'?" Last night,...
View ArticleEric Holder's "Too Big To Jail" problem
This morning I received yet another petition-signature request from the good folks at the Campaign for America's Future. This one asked Eric Holder to step back from his statement of last week that...
View ArticleN. J.'s Governor: Chris Hypo-Christie?
A couple weeks ago, the Governor of the great state of New Jersey (where I work [and pay taxes] but don't live) visited CPAC, and gave his stock speech about the totally awesome wondrousness of the...
View ArticleThe Clinton Pregnancy, the "Right-to-Life", and When Life Begins.
So Chelsea Clinton, after almost 4 full years of marriage, has become pregnant, and the conservative punditry sees what they always see - another opportunity to make some heads explode. For the...
View ArticleInvestors Decide Prisons not Profitable
There is a sort of a good-news story has been getting, imho, entirely too little attention. It appears that several Venture Capital firms have crunched the numbers and determined that the...
View ArticleNew York State FAILS to pass Medical Marijuana Law
Most news outlets are reporting today that a wonderfully bipartisan compromise measure to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes has passed both in both the Assembly and the Senate in New...
View Article... and you approved THAT message?
I live in New York State's Hudson Valley, the 18th District after the most recent Gerrymander. Our current Congresscritter is one Sean Patrick Maloney, a Blue Dog if ever there was one.His opposition...
View ArticleNew York State Puts The Squeeze on Medical Marijuana Access
Here’s the good news — Medical marijuana is now legal in New York State! Good luck finding a dispensary, or a doctor who can actually prescribe cannabis, though.The Andrew Cuomo administration is...
View ArticleThe Existential Question of the 2016 Election - Sooner or Later?
Given the general state of affairs in the world today, I am fairly certain that no matter what your politics, no matter who you support now or may have supported earlier in the Presidential race, we...
View ArticleMusic for the Republican National Convention
It's beginning to become obvious that aside from Ted Nugent, booking musical acts to appear at the Trumpence Dog & Pony (aka Republican National Convention) show is gonna be a tall order. It's...
View ArticleWhy Didn't the Russians Hack the Republicans?
Let's play pretend, OK? Pretend you are a highly-placed official in the Russian Intelligence Apparatchik. You are a spy, and you are in charge of other spies. You and your underlings spy on America....
View ArticleWhat's the Big Problem With the Term "Alt-Right?"
I've heard lots of complaints about this new moniker for the various hate groups that seem to be the base of the "Trump Coalition." I will say that I'm somewhat in agreement that a group of groups, all...
View ArticleWhat's REALLY Bothering Me This Morning.
Just need to get this off my chest, and QUICKLY, before my head explodes!The popular vote tally reveals something that impresses me at quite strange.It seems, from the totals, that there must be a...
View ArticleThere's Only One Town The Circus Will Be Coming To
The town in question, of course, is Washington, DC. As the nation's ultimate clown, selected from what we all referred to, at one time or another, as the "clown car" primary, prepares to move into...
View ArticleFive Things I'm Getting Tired of Hearing from the Media and the Crooked White...
I don’t know about you, folks, but one of my major reactions to the current administration is pure exhaustion. It’s quite tiring trying to separate the tiny nuggets of truth one hears these days from...
View ArticleRisk Corridors, or How Marco Rubio Broke Obamacare
By way of introduction, before we get into the meat of this topic, I want to clarify a few things. First, I am NOT, in any way, employed in the insurance business. I'm an electronics engineer by...
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