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Category Archives: Essays
Supreme Court History, Judicial Review and More Stuff
Judicial Review – the right of the federal courts to declare laws of Congress and acts of the executive branch void and unenforceable if judged to be in conflict of the US Constitution. Since 1789 the Supreme Court has declared over … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Essays, Political Thought
Tagged Alexander Hamilton, judicial activism, judicial restart, judicial review, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama, Supreme Court, Supreme Court history, United States Constitution, United States Supreme Court
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What Federalism Can Teach On Obamacare
After two years of open debate, this week the United Sates Supreme Courtwill hear three days of legal arguments on the constitutionality of President Obama’s mandated healthcare overhaul. A ruling could come as soon as June of this year. In … Continue reading
Gluttons for Punishment: Blogging Is Tiresome
I have a desire to write, learn, research and share information. Blogging provides the perfect avenue to satisfy that desire. Since I began blogging in December 2008, I’ve seen many sites come and go and watched the industry grow. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Essays, Opinion
Tagged blog traffic, blogging methods, Blogosphere, new journalism, state of blogging
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The Paul Ryan Democratic Pilgrimage
Naturally during a presidential elections season, whether it be the general or primary, if people are following, this is where their attention is usually directed. By and large, the smaller, less important details on daily congressional activities tend to take … Continue reading
The Road to Limited Government: How to cut government spending smartly.
As I so fondly love to remind Jeff of in our economics discussions; there is a huge difference between the way things are (Descriptive) and the way things ought to be (Normative). If this approach is the gold standard of … Continue reading
Newt Gingrich: @$$-h0le or misunderstood ENTJ’er?
Yup…I said it. Newt Gingrich is an @$$-h0le and probably is to the core of his soul. He is also, pugnacious, condescending, arrogant, self-aggrandizing, and a narcissistic egoist, among other things. But in my mind, while every adjective describing him … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Essays, Opinion, Philosophy
Tagged ENTJ, INFP, Newt Gingrich, Republican, United States
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How’s about #OccupyWallStreet starts occupying some reality?
Other than one or two quips at the expense of the OccupyWallStreeters I have kept my thoughts on the protesters to a minimum. In the abstract, I agree with their sort of “message” about corporate greed, bailouts, and the unethical … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, American Society, Essays, Opinion
Tagged Americans for Prosperity, New York City, OccupyWallStreet, protest, United States, Wall Street
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Income Inequality, Economic Mobility, and Investment
(Warning: Very wonky and lengthy. Proceed at your own peril.) Last week, Jeff brought our attention to a Congressional Budgetary Office report on income distribution in the United States ranging from 1979-2007. The report details the troubling trend of disparity … Continue reading
Plato and His Republic
Assumption in Athenian society was the spike that Socrates struck at most. Socrates expressed passionately during his time that knowledge brought about virtue and excellence to the human condition. Individuals acted wrongly or unjustly out of ignorance. Socrates, like many … Continue reading
Paul Krugman: Stimulus Hophead
The ridiculousness of economist and Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman became apparent to me about three or four years ago. I don’t exactly remember which specific article it was that alluded to me that he had gone off of the deep end. But, … Continue reading
Putting ‘Big Oil’ to Rights
“Big Oil” has taken a public relations pounding. After all, the industry is thoroughly protected and its profits guaranteed out of necessity of the market. With the economy tanking and the government unable to do anything except make matters worse, … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, Economics, Essays
Tagged American economy, Big Oil, oil industry, Oil profits, oil revenues, oil spill, Regulation
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There is a Hullaballo in Bizzaro World!
After thumbing through some blogs I came upon a little gem from the left-leaning blog known as Hullabaloo. In it the story-teller, Digby, is tucking in all of his little leftists with a bedtime narrative in which Paul Krugman, NYT … Continue reading
Why We Have Enemies
Contemporary Western thought and post-modern relativism compels us to explore our place in the world vis-à-vis other civilizations through certain intellectual perspectives. The West’s legacy of reasoning is based heavily on thinkers such as Aristotle. The foundation he created implores … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Political Thought
Tagged abstract reasoning, Aristotle, deconstructionism, Islam, Jihad, natural laws, Philosophy, post modernism, realism, Western Civilization, western thought
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