The Framers of the United States Constitution understood several things very clearly from their experience as a colonial vassal state with only limited legislative or self-governing authority under the rule of Britain’s King George III. That principle lesson learned, justifying a revolution, was that the leader or ruler of a nation must not be allowed... Read More

I sometimes wonder what the Founders, if they could return to life and see their creation, would think of today’s American Republic. President George W. Bush described the Constitution of the United States as “just a goddamned piece of paper� before he went on a rampage all over the world in what he called the... Read More

There is a new bill to ban TikTok, that is not really about banning TikTok, that has gone under the radar until recently. The very Orwellian worded, "Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology," or RESTRICT act, has some very dangerous provisions. For instance, the act grants the Secretary of... Read More

In 2005, President George W. Bush allegedly addressed a meeting of Republicans discussing whether to renew the Patriot Act due to its possible unconstitutionality by angrily blurting out that the Constitution was “just a goddamned piece of paper!� If the story is true, it partly explains the numerous crimes committed by Bush and his associates,... Read More

The era of so-called industrial deregulation and globalized free trade, whose icon was the World Trade Organization (established in 1994), has been grotesquely misshaped into an era of restrictive trade, and mean-spirited and often petty recriminations in the form of targeted sanctions exercised mainly by the NATO powers. A strategy once applied with some sense... Read More

The rhetoric of these people was revolutionary: there was talk of “crossing the Rubicon.� A crowd chanted “Hang Mike Pence.� Somebody erected makeshift gallows. Some grandiosely claimed, “The storm is coming,� while Alex Jones promised that “1776 will commence again.� In a similar vein Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert controversially tweeted “Today is 1776� while events... Read More

“Terrorism� might well be the word one encounters most in the international media. The reaction to recent incidents has been hysterical coupled with demands for an apocalyptic violent response. At this point with the old year ending and the new one about to begin, it would perhaps be fruitful to examine both the reality of... Read More