The Wednesday morning quarterbacking is in full swing. Journalists and pundits are pontificating what each campaign did right or wrong and the challenges facing both major political parties. Being a political junkie, that was my first instinct. This morning I woke up with a different perspective. This shift in mindset comes not from the questions … Read more
Even though it is cloudy this morning (literally), I’m still pretty sure the sun came up in the East as it always does. As it will for the next four years. I have some thoughts about why American voters chose to elect Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, but will … Read more
Is it possible, a major segment of the American electorate has contracted Alzheimer’s disease? Yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the private sector created another 161,000 jobs in October. And the unemployment rate dropped to 4.9 percent. Equally important, average wages rose 2.8 percent compared to October 2015, the highest annual increase in more … Read more
For most voters, the question of Barack Obama’s nation of birth was no longer an issue during his 2012 re-election campaign. When he finally released the original, long-form birth certificate on April 28, 2011, many people, myself included, wondered why he waited so long to debunk the conspiracy theories about his citizenship. The answer … Read more
Article One, Section 9, clause 2 of the United States Constitution decrees, “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.” This protection against unlawful arrest and detention is derived from English common law first documented in … Read more